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Muscular&Skeletal
Key terms
Term | Definition |
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Involuntary muscles | Muscles not under your conscious control |
Voluntary muscles | Muscles under your conscious control |
Skeletal muscles | Attached to the bones of you skeleton and provide the force that moves your bones |
Tendon | Strong connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone |
Striated muscle | Muscle cells appear banded |
Smooth muscles | Muscles inside many internal organs |
Cardiac muscles | Found only in your heart |
Skeleton | Made up of all the bones in the body |
Vertebrae | Make up your backbone |
Joint | Place in the body where two bones come together |
Ligament | Connect bone to bone |
Cartilage | Covers the ends of bones |
Red marrow | Produces blood cells |
Yellow marrow | Stores fat |
Osteoporosis | Condition in which body's bones become weak and break easily |