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Med. Term Ch. 4
muscular system
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a narrow band of nonelastic, dense, fibrous connective tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone? | tendon |
| What muscle is striated? | skeletal |
| What tendon is attaches the gastrocnemius muscle to the heel bone? | Achilles tendon |
| What are long, slender cells that make up muscles? | Muscle fibers |
| The body has more than ___________ muscles. | 600 |
| Which muscles are located in the walls of internal organs? | smooth |
| Smooth muscles are also known as ______________. | Involuntary |
| What muscles do not have the dark and light bands? | Unstriated |
| What term refers to working in opposition? | Antagonistic |
| What means relating to the internal organs? | Visceral |
| What is also known as cardiac muscle? | Myocardial muscles |
| What means muscle? | My/o |
| What means pertaining to? | al |
| What is the largest muscle in the human body? | Gluteus Maximus |
| ____________ is the tightening of a muscle. | Contraction |
| What occurs when a muscle returns to its original form? | Relaxation |
| What means pertaiing to the relationship between the nerve and muscle? | Neuromuscular |
| What is the stimulation of a muscle by an impulse transmitted by a motor nerve? | Muscle Innervation |
| __________________ is movement of a limb away from the midline of the body. | Abduction |
| An ___________________ is a muscle that moves a part away from the midline. | Abductor |
| ____________________ is the movement of a limb toward the midline of the body. | Adduction |
| What means to lead? | duct |
| What means decreasing the angle between two bones by bending a limb at a joint? | Flexion |
| A ________________ is a muscle that bends a limb at a joint. | Flexor |
| A ________________ is a muscle that moves a part toward the midline. | Adductor |
| _________________ means increasing the angle between two bones or the straightening of a limb. | Extension |
| _________________ is a muscle that straightens a limb at a joint. | Extensor |
| ___________________ is the extreme or overextension of a limb or body part beyond its normal limit. | Hyperextension |
| _____________ is the act of raising or lifting a body part such as raising the ribs when breathing. | Elevation |
| ________________ is the act of lowering a body part. | Depression |
| ______________ turns a bone on its own axis. | Rotation |
| ______________________ turns the palm of the hand upward or forward. | Supination |
| What is the circular movement at the far end of a limb? | Circumduction |
| _______________ turns the palm of the hand downward or backward. | Pronation |
| ______________ bends the foot downward at the ankle. | Plantar Flexion |
| During flexion, what is relaxed? | Triceps |
| During flexion, what is contracted? | Biceps |
| What means to stretch out? | tens |
| ____________ is the circular movement around an axis such as the shoulder joint. | Rotation |
| An __________________ is an imaginary line that runs lengthwise through the center of the body. | Axis |
| What decreases the angle of the elbow? | flexion |
| What increases the angle of the elbow? | Extension |
| ____________________ turns a body part on its axis. | Rotator Muscle |
| __________________ is the group of muscles their tendons that hold the head of the humerus securely in place as it rotates within the shoulder joint. | Rotator Cuff |
| ____________ is the act of rotating the arm or the leg so that the palm of the hand, or sole of the foot is turned forward or upward. | Supination |
| ___________________ is the act of rotating the arm or leg so that the palm of the hand or sole of the foot is turned downward or backward. | Pronation |
| What is the circular movement of a limb at the far end? | Circumduction |
| Palm of hand is turned upward | Supination |
| Palm of hand is turned downward | Pronation |
| _______________ means pertaining to the foot. | Plantar |
| What is the movement that bends the foot downward at the ankle? | plantar flexion |
| Muscle movement generates nearly _______ of the heat that keeps the body warm. | 85% |
| Movements of skeletal muscles are made possible by two points of attachment known as the ______________ and ________________. | origin and insertion |
| __________ means slanted or at an angle. | Oblique |
| _______________ means wrist or wrist bones. | Carpi |
| ________________ means toward the side. | Lateralis |
| _________________ means toward the midline. | Medialis |
| ___________________ helps bend the neck and rotate the head. | sternocleidomastoid |
| _________________ is the place where the muscle ends by attaching to a bone or tendon. | Insertion |
| _______________ is located nearest the midline of the body or on a less moveable part of the skeleton. | Origin |
| _________ means near the surface or external | superficial |
| __________ means deeper location. | Internal |
| ______________ is a thick, fan shaped muscel that is situated on the anterior chest wall. | Pectoralis Major |
| ______________ means relating to the chest. | Pectoral |
| _________________ means in straight alignment with the vertical axis of the body. | Rectus |
| ______________ is a ring-like muscle that tightly constricts the opening of a passageway. | Sphincter |
| What means in a crosswise direction? | Transverse |
| This means two. | bi |
| This is also known as biceps. | Biceps Brachii |
| This is formed from three divisions. | Triceps |
| The __________________ is shaped like an inverted triangle or the Greek letter delta. | deltoid muscle |
| ceps means __________. | head |
| The hamstring group consists of ____________ separate muscles. | three |
| The primary functions of the hamstrings are for knee _________ and hip ____________. | flexion and extension |
| _________________ is a specialist who works under the supervision of a physician to develop, implement, and coordinate exercise programs, and administer medical tests to promote physical fitness. | Exercise Physiologist |
| _____________ is a physician who specializes in treating the causes of paralysis and similar muscular disorders in which there is a loss of function. | Physiatrist |
| _____________ is the restoration, following disease, illness, or injury, of the ability to function in a normal or near-normal manner. | Rehabilitation |
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