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| arthralgia | pain in the joints
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| atrophy | wasting away "without development"
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| cardiac muscle | specailalized type of muscle that forms the wall of the heart, is an involuntary
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| contract/contraction | a reduction in size
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| contracture | an abnormal (usually permanent) bending of a joint into a fixed position; usually caused by artophy and shortening of muscle fibers
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| fascia | thin sheets of fibrous connective tissue that penetrate and cover the entire muscle, holding the fibers toegther
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| insertion | the point of attachement of a muscle to a bone it moves
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| muscle fiber | the name given to the individual muscle cell
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| involuntary muscle | muscles that act without consicous control
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| origin | the point of attachemnt of a muscle to a bone that is less movable
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| pelvic girdle weakness | weakness of the muscles of the pelvic girdle
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| pseudohypertrophic muscluar dystrophy | a form of musclar dystrophy that is caharterczied by progressive weaknessand muscle fiber degneration without evidence of nerve involment ir degneration of nerve tissue
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| skeltal muscle | muscles that attach to the bones of the skeleton
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| smooth muscle | muscls found in the walls of hollow organs and tubes such as the stomach, intestines, blood vessels
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| striated muscle | muscles that have a striped apperance when viewed under a microscope
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| tendon | a strong fibrous band of tissue that extends from a muscle, attaching it to the bone by becoming continous with the perisoterum of the bone
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| torso | the main part of the body, to which the head and the extremties are attached
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| trunk | the main part of the body, to which the head and the extremties are attached
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| visceral muscle | muscles of the internal organs
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| voluntary muscle | muscles (such as skeltal muscle) that operate under conscious control
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| musclar dystrophy | is a group of gentically transmitted disorders characertized by progressive symmertrical wasting of skeletal muscles
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| polymyositis | is a chronic,progressive diease affecting the skeletal muscles
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| rotator cuff tear | a tear in the muscles that form a "cuff" over the upper end of the arm
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| strains | is an injury to the body of the muscle of attachment of the tendon, resulting form overstrecthing, overextension or misuse
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| muscle biopsy | is the extraction of a specimen of muscle tissue, through either a biopsy needle or an incisional biopsy, for the purpose of examining it under a micrscope
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| electromyography | is the process of recording the strength of the contraction of a muscle when it is stimulation by an electric current
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| ankylosing spondylitis | is a type of arthritis that affects the vertebral column and causes deformities of the spine
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| adhesive capsulitis | is a shoulder condition characterized by stiffness of the shoulder, limites shoulder movement, and pain, known as "frozen shoulder"
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