Structure Muscular System - created from Mind Map

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Muscle Fibers

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Tendon

long, slender cells that make up muscle

bound together by connective tissue

bank of connective tissue that envelop, or bind together muscle

flexible to allow muscle movement

narrow band of nonelastic, dense, fibrous connective tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone

Patellar tendon - attach muscle to bottom of the patella

Achilles tendon - attach gastrocnemius muscle to the heel bone

Aponeurosis - sheet-like fibrous connective tissue resembling flattened tendon that connect muscle together or to the bone