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Muscle Disorders
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| clonus | alternate muscular contraction and relaxation in rapid succession. |
| Clonic | generally used in conjunction with the term tonic, which means normal tone. |
| Parkinson disease | characterized by four features: slowness and absence of movement, muscular rigidity, resting tremor, and unstable posture. |
| Rigidity means | stiffness or inflexibility. |
| Charley horse | a bruised or torn muscle of quadriceps muscle |
| tonic/clonic | muscle response to seizure activity |
| tetanus | a disease caused by bacteria |
| atrophy | wasting away or weakening of muscles |
| rigor mortis | the muscular hardness of death |
| myasthenia gravis | a chronic progressive neuromuscular weakness |
| leiomyoma | a benign tumor of smooth muscle |
| bursa | a sac-like cavity filled with synovial fluid and located over bony prominences |
| Pain in a muscle | myalgia |
| Contraction of sternocleidomastoid muscle, causing rotation of the head. | torticollis |
| A nervous system disorder characterized by four muscular features. | Parkinson disease |
| A cyst on a joint capsule or tendon sheath. | ganglion |
| atony | Lack of normal tone or strength |
| bursitis | Inflammation of a bursa |
| cramp | Sustained spasm or contraction of a muscle accompanied by severe, localized pain |
| dystonia | Dyskinetic movements due to disordered tonicity of muscle |
| Dupuytren’s contracture | Painless thickening and contracture of the palmar fascia |
| fasciculations | Repetitive, involuntary contraction of muscle (tremors) |
| fibromyalgia | Group of rheumatic disorders characterized by achy pain, tenderness, and stiffness |
| myofascial pain syndrome | Chronic condition affecting the fascia, or connective tissue covering muscles |
| fibromyositis | Chronic inflammation of a muscle with hyperplasia of connective tissue |
| ganglion | Thin-walled band cyst formed on a joint capsule or tendon sheath |
| muscular dystrophy | Genetic abnormality of muscle tissue characterized by dysfunction and ultimately deterioration |
| myalgia | Muscle pain |
| myopathy | Any disease of the muscles |
| myositis ossificans | A disease characterized by bony deposits or the ossification of muscle tissue |
| paralysis | The loss of nervous control of a muscle |
| plantar fasciitis | Excessive pulling or stretching of the calcaneal periosteum by the plantar fascia |
| polymyositis | Autoimmune disorder which causes atrophy and weakness of the muscles |
| tendinitis | Inflammation of a tendon or the synovial lining of a tendon sheath |
| tenosynovitis | Inflammation of the tendon and the tendon sheath |
| tennis elbow | Inflammation, soreness, or pain on the outside side of the upper arm near the elbow |
| lateral and medial epicondylitis | Condition characterized by weakness and pain in the muscles and tendons of the outside elbow |
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