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Milady ch 6 - 3
Chapter 6 Muscular system Q&A
Question | Answer |
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The scientific study of the muscles | Myology |
Amount of muscles in the human body | Over six hundred |
What percentage of body's weight is muscle? | Forty to Fifty |
How do muscles work? | they stretch and contract according to movement |
Why should a nail tech learn about muscles? | In order to apply the correct massage movement. |
These muscles are known as voluntary muscle because they are moved by will for walking, jumping, running, throwing, lifting, and turning your head. | Striated |
These muscles are called involuntary because we cannot control them they control lungs, stomach, kidneys,and intestines | Non-Striated |
This involuntary muscle is unique and controls only the heart, with a squeezing motion to force blood in and out. | Cardiac |
muscles that do not move and attach to the skeleton. | Origin |
The part of the muscle that moves. | Insertion |
The middle part of a muscle | Belly |
What do massage, heat rays, moist heat, and nerve impulses do for the body? | Stimulate muscle tissue |