Muscular Systemmm Word Scramble
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Abduction | moving a body part away from the midline. |
Adduction | moving a body part toward the midline. |
Cardiac Muscle | Forms the walls of the heart and contracts to circulate blood. |
Circumduction | Moving in a circle at a joint,or moving one end of a body part in a cicle while the othrt end remains stationary, such as swinging and in a circle. |
Contract | To shorten,decrease in size,or draw together;an agreement between two or more person. |
Contractibility | muscle fibers that are stimulated by nerves contract,or become short and thick,which cause movement. |
Contracture | Tighting or shortening of a muscle. |
Elasticity | allows the muscle to return to its original shape after it has contracted or stretched. |
Excitability | irritability, the ability to respond to stimulus such as a nerve impulse. |
Extension | increasing the angle between two bones,or straightening a body part. |
Fascia | fibrous membrane covering, supporting, and seperating muscles. |
Insertion | End or area of a muscle that moves when the muscle contracts. |
involuntary | independent action not controlled by choice or desire. |
muscular system | over 600 muscles make up the system |
extensibility | the ability to be stretched |
visceral(smooth)muscle | is found in the internal organs of the body such as those of the digestive and respiratory systems,and the blood vessels and eyes. |
skeletal muscle | is attached to bones and causes body movement |
voluntary | skeletal muscle |
tenclons | storng,tough connective-tissue cords |
origin | when a muscle attaches to a bone,the end that does not move. |
flexion | decreasing the angle between twp bones,or bending a body part. |
rotation | turning a body part around its own axis; for example, turning the head from side to side |
muscle tone | this state of partial contraction |
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