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Muscular System
Muscular Sys Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How many muscles in the body? | more than 600 |
| Voluntary | muscle action controlled consciously |
| Involuntary | muscle operates automatically - found in the heart, stomach or walls of blood vessels |
| Agonist Muscle | muscles produce an outward or flexor movement |
| Antagonist muscle | contract & bring the limb back to the original position |
| chondr | cartilage |
| my | muscle |
| fib | fiber |
| tendin | tendon |
| fibromyalgia | fibr - fiber my - muscle algia - pain chronic pain in the muscles |
| myoplasty | my - muscle plasty - repair plastic surgery of muscle tissue |