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Muscular&Skeletal
Key terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |