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med term ch7.
med term ch 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| arthralgia | pain in the joints |
| atrophy | wasting away "without development" |
| cardiac muscle | specailalized type of muscle that forms the wall of the heart, is an involuntary |
| contract/contraction | a reduction in size |
| contracture | an abnormal (usually permanent) bending of a joint into a fixed position; usually caused by artophy and shortening of muscle fibers |
| fascia | thin sheets of fibrous connective tissue that penetrate and cover the entire muscle, holding the fibers toegther |
| insertion | the point of attachement of a muscle to a bone it moves |
| muscle fiber | the name given to the individual muscle cell |
| involuntary muscle | muscles that act without consicous control |
| origin | the point of attachemnt of a muscle to a bone that is less movable |
| pelvic girdle weakness | weakness of the muscles of the pelvic girdle |
| pseudohypertrophic muscluar dystrophy | a form of musclar dystrophy that is caharterczied by progressive weaknessand muscle fiber degneration without evidence of nerve involment ir degneration of nerve tissue |
| skeltal muscle | muscles that attach to the bones of the skeleton |
| smooth muscle | muscls found in the walls of hollow organs and tubes such as the stomach, intestines, blood vessels |
| striated muscle | muscles that have a striped apperance when viewed under a microscope |
| tendon | a strong fibrous band of tissue that extends from a muscle, attaching it to the bone by becoming continous with the perisoterum of the bone |
| torso | the main part of the body, to which the head and the extremties are attached |
| trunk | the main part of the body, to which the head and the extremties are attached |
| visceral muscle | muscles of the internal organs |
| voluntary muscle | muscles (such as skeltal muscle) that operate under conscious control |
| musclar dystrophy | is a group of gentically transmitted disorders characertized by progressive symmertrical wasting of skeletal muscles |
| polymyositis | is a chronic,progressive diease affecting the skeletal muscles |
| rotator cuff tear | a tear in the muscles that form a "cuff" over the upper end of the arm |
| strains | is an injury to the body of the muscle of attachment of the tendon, resulting form overstrecthing, overextension or misuse |
| muscle biopsy | is the extraction of a specimen of muscle tissue, through either a biopsy needle or an incisional biopsy, for the purpose of examining it under a micrscope |
| electromyography | is the process of recording the strength of the contraction of a muscle when it is stimulation by an electric current |
| ankylosing spondylitis | is a type of arthritis that affects the vertebral column and causes deformities of the spine |
| adhesive capsulitis | is a shoulder condition characterized by stiffness of the shoulder, limites shoulder movement, and pain, known as "frozen shoulder" |
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