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| What is a narrow band of nonelastic, dense, fibrous connective tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone? | tendon
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| What muscle is striated? | skeletal
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| What tendon is attaches the gastrocnemius muscle to the heel bone? | Achilles tendon
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| What are long, slender cells that make up muscles? | Muscle fibers
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| The body has more than ___________ muscles. | 600
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| Which muscles are located in the walls of internal organs? | smooth
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| Smooth muscles are also known as ______________. | Involuntary
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| What muscles do not have the dark and light bands? | Unstriated
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| What term refers to working in opposition? | Antagonistic
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| What means relating to the internal organs? | Visceral
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| What is also known as cardiac muscle? | Myocardial muscles
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| What means muscle? | My/o
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| What means pertaining to? | al
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| What is the largest muscle in the human body? | Gluteus Maximus
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| ____________ is the tightening of a muscle. | Contraction
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| What occurs when a muscle returns to its original form? | Relaxation
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| What means pertaiing to the relationship between the nerve and muscle? | Neuromuscular
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| What is the stimulation of a muscle by an impulse transmitted by a motor nerve? | Muscle Innervation
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| __________________ is movement of a limb away from the midline of the body. | Abduction
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| An ___________________ is a muscle that moves a part away from the midline. | Abductor
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| ____________________ is the movement of a limb toward the midline of the body. | Adduction
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| What means to lead? | duct
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| What means decreasing the angle between two bones by bending a limb at a joint? | Flexion
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| A ________________ is a muscle that bends a limb at a joint. | Flexor
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| A ________________ is a muscle that moves a part toward the midline. | Adductor
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| _________________ means increasing the angle between two bones or the straightening of a limb. | Extension
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| _________________ is a muscle that straightens a limb at a joint. | Extensor
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| ___________________ is the extreme or overextension of a limb or body part beyond its normal limit. | Hyperextension
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| _____________ is the act of raising or lifting a body part such as raising the ribs when breathing. | Elevation
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| ________________ is the act of lowering a body part. | Depression
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| ______________ turns a bone on its own axis. | Rotation
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| ______________________ turns the palm of the hand upward or forward. | Supination
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| What is the circular movement at the far end of a limb? | Circumduction
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| _______________ turns the palm of the hand downward or backward. | Pronation
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| ______________ bends the foot downward at the ankle. | Plantar Flexion
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| During flexion, what is relaxed? | Triceps
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| During flexion, what is contracted? | Biceps
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| What means to stretch out? | tens
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| ____________ is the circular movement around an axis such as the shoulder joint. | Rotation
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| An __________________ is an imaginary line that runs lengthwise through the center of the body. | Axis
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| What decreases the angle of the elbow? | flexion
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| What increases the angle of the elbow? | Extension
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| ____________________ turns a body part on its axis. | Rotator Muscle
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| __________________ is the group of muscles their tendons that hold the head of the humerus securely in place as it rotates within the shoulder joint. | Rotator Cuff
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| ____________ is the act of rotating the arm or the leg so that the palm of the hand, or sole of the foot is turned forward or upward. | Supination
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| ___________________ is the act of rotating the arm or leg so that the palm of the hand or sole of the foot is turned downward or backward. | Pronation
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| What is the circular movement of a limb at the far end? | Circumduction
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| Palm of hand is turned upward | Supination
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| Palm of hand is turned downward | Pronation
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| _______________ means pertaining to the foot. | Plantar
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| What is the movement that bends the foot downward at the ankle? | plantar flexion
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| Muscle movement generates nearly _______ of the heat that keeps the body warm. | 85%
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| Movements of skeletal muscles are made possible by two points of attachment known as the ______________ and ________________. | origin and insertion
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| __________ means slanted or at an angle. | Oblique
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| _______________ means wrist or wrist bones. | Carpi
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| ________________ means toward the side. | Lateralis
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| _________________ means toward the midline. | Medialis
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| ___________________ helps bend the neck and rotate the head. | sternocleidomastoid
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| _________________ is the place where the muscle ends by attaching to a bone or tendon. | Insertion
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| _______________ is located nearest the midline of the body or on a less moveable part of the skeleton. | Origin
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| _________ means near the surface or external | superficial
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| __________ means deeper location. | Internal
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| ______________ is a thick, fan shaped muscel that is situated on the anterior chest wall. | Pectoralis Major
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| ______________ means relating to the chest. | Pectoral
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| _________________ means in straight alignment with the vertical axis of the body. | Rectus
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| ______________ is a ring-like muscle that tightly constricts the opening of a passageway. | Sphincter
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| What means in a crosswise direction? | Transverse
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| This means two. | bi
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| This is also known as biceps. | Biceps Brachii
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| This is formed from three divisions. | Triceps
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| The __________________ is shaped like an inverted triangle or the Greek letter delta. | deltoid muscle
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| ceps means __________. | head
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| The hamstring group consists of ____________ separate muscles. | three
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| The primary functions of the hamstrings are for knee _________ and hip ____________. | flexion and extension
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| _________________ is a specialist who works under the supervision of a physician to develop, implement, and coordinate exercise programs, and administer medical tests to promote physical fitness. | Exercise Physiologist
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| _____________ is a physician who specializes in treating the causes of paralysis and similar muscular disorders in which there is a loss of function. | Physiatrist
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| _____________ is the restoration, following disease, illness, or injury, of the ability to function in a normal or near-normal manner. | Rehabilitation
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