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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| myitis | inflammation of the muscles |
| myogenesis | formation of muscular tissue |
| brachialgia | pain in arm |
| BRADYKINESIA | slowness of movement IN MUSCLES |
| CLONIC | An abnormality in neuromuscular activity characterized by rapidly alternating muscular contraction and relaxation |
| DACTYLOSPASM | PAIN IN FINGER OR TOE |
| FASCIA | Anatomy A sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue enveloping, separating, or binding together muscles, organs, and other soft structures of the body |
| INSERTION | An insertion is the point at which a muscle attaches to the skin, a bone, or another muscle |
| ISOMETRIC | HAVING EQUAL MEASUREMENT |
| ISOTONIC | In an isotonic contraction, tension rises and the skeletal muscle's length changes |
| MYASHENIA | muscular debility or weakness |
| MYOPARESIS | Slight muscular paralysis. |
| MYORRHAPHY | suturing of a wound in a muscle |
| NEUROMYOPATHIC | A disorder or disease affecting nerves and associated muscle tissue |
| TENODESIS | The surgical anchoring of a tendon, as to a bone |
| APONEUROSIS | A sheetlike fibrous membrane resembling a flattened tendon that serves as a fascia to bind muscles together or to connect muscle to bone |
| ATROPHY | A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use |
| EXCITABILITY | to arouse the property of a cell that enables it to react to irritation or stimulation, such as the ability of a nerve or muscle cell to react to an electric stimulus. |
| ELASTICITY | The condition or property of being elastic; flexibility. |
| MYOFIBRILS | One of the threadlike longitudinal fibrils occurring in a skeletal or cardiac muscle fiber |
| TENDON | band of tough, inelastic fibrous tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment and consists of rows of elongated cells, minimal ground substance, and densely arranged, almost parallel, bundles of collageneous fibers. |
| FASCICLE | a bundle of skeletal muscle fibers surrounded by perimysium, a type of connective tissue |
| ROTATOR CUFF | an anatomical term given to the group of muscles and their tendons that act to stabilize the shoulder. |
| PROSTHESIS | ARTIFICIAL LIMB, ETC |
| TORSION | PAIN |
| STRAIN | an overstretching or overexertion of some part of the musculature. |
| SYNOVECTOMY | Excision of part or all of the synovial membrane of a joint |
| DIATHERMY | the heating of body tissues due to their resistance to the passage of high-frequency electromagnetic radiation, electric current, or ultrasonic waves |
| CONTRACTURE | An abnormal, often permanent shortening, as of muscle or scar tissue, that results in distortion or deformity, especially of a joint of the body. |
| EXTRINSIC | Of or relating to an organ or structure, especially a muscle, originating outside of the part where it is found or upon which it acts |
| DYSTROPHIN | protein that helps muscle tissue repair itself |
| GLYCOLYSIS | The pathway in which a cell breaks down glucose into energy. |
| AEROBIC | pertaining to the presence of air or oxygen |
| ANAEROBIN | NO PRESENCE OF OXYGEN |
| LACTIC ACID | A syrupy, water-soluble liquid existing in three isomeric forms: one in muscle tissue and blood as a result of anaerobic glucose metabolism, |
| NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION | the area of contact between the ends of a large myelinated nerve fiber and a fiber of skeletal muscle |
| SARCOMERES | One of the segments into which a fibril of striated muscle is divided |
| ANTAGONIST | the contractile unit of a myofibril |
| HYPERTROPHY | A nontumorous enlargement of an organ or a tissue as a result of an increase in the size rather than the number of constituent cells. |
| ATROPHY | a wasting away; a diminution in the size of a cell, tissue, organ, or part. |
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