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Medical terminology
muscle system
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abduction | Movement of a bdy part away from the mid line of the body |
| Adduction | Movement of a body part towards the mid line of the body |
| Agonist | The muscle that causes the primary movement in the muscle pair |
| Antagonist | The muscle that works against the movement of the agonist in a muscle pair |
| Automaticity | The ability of skeletal muscle fibers to resume their resting lenght when a stretching force is removed |
| Biceps brachii | The muscle of the anterior upper arm that flexes the arm and forearm and supinates the hand. |
| Biceps Femoris | The muscle of the posterior thigh that extends the thigh and flexes and rotated the leg |
| Cardiac muscles | A type of a involuntary muscle founds only in the heart; pumps blood from the heart into blood vessels |
| Circimduction | Rotation of the arm or leg |
| Contractility | Contractions of the muscles |
| Deltoid | Triangle muscles in the shoulders |
| Depression | Severe feelings of sadness |
| Dorsiflexing | Movement of the sole of the foot upwards |
| Elasticity | The ability of skeletal muscle fibers to resume their resting length when a stretching force is removed |
| Elevation | Raising of the body part |
| Endomyisium | a fine shreath of aerolar connective tissue around each muscular fiber the innermost layer of connective tissue around a muscle |
| Eversion | The turning outward of the sole of the foot |
| Excitibility | The ability of a muscle to Receive and respond to a nerve impulse by contracting also called irritability |
| Extension | The straightening of a limb after it has been found |
| Fascia | A band or sheet of fiberous tissue that encloses a muscle or group of muscles |
| Flexion | The movement of two body surfaces toward eachother as in the act of beding |
| Frontalis | Muscles that rise your eyebrows and cause wrinkles in your forhead |
| Gastroenemius | The prominent muscle of the posterior calf |
| Gluteus Maximus | Booty |
| Gluteous medius | part of the butt that rotates the thigh |
| Hyperextension | the act of bending a joint or limb beyond |
| Insertion | the part of a muscle by which is attatched to the part to be mored |
| Inversion | Invert the foot |
| Involuntary muscles | Muscles that contracts w/o conscious control and found in wal of internal organs |
| Latimimus dorsi | Horizontal abduction |
| Ligament | Short band of tough, flexible fiborous connective tissue |
| Muscle | What helps your bones move |
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