Questions

Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.

Electrical burns occur principally because of the heat generated by the flow of electrical current through the body.

Burns caused by electricity are divided into three types:

electrical burns,

arc burns, and

thermal contact burns.

Electrical burns can result when a person touches electrical wiring or equipment that is used or maintained improperly.

A sarcomere is the basic unit of striated muscle tissue. It is the repeating unit between two Z lines.

Skeletal muscles are composed of tubular muscle cells (myocytes called muscle fibers or myofibers) which are formed in a process known as myogenesis. Muscle fibers contain numerous tubular myofibrils. Myofibrils are composed of repeating sections of sarcomeres, which appear under the microscope as alternating dark and light bands. Sarcomeres are composed of long, fibrous proteins as filaments that slide past each other when a muscle contracts or relaxes.

A muscle fiber from a biceps muscle may contain 100,000 sarcomeres.