Question | Answer |
APPROXIMATELY HOW MANY MUSCLESARE IN THE HUMAN BODY? | 600 |
SOME MUSCLES WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH WHAT? | BONES |
WHAT CONTROLS VOLUNTARY MUSCLE MOVEMENT? | THE MOTOR NERVES OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM |
THE BODY STORES CARBS IN THE MUSCLES IN THE FORM OF A WHAT? | STARCH |
WHAT IS THE STARCH THAT IS STORED IN THE MUSCLES CALLED? | GLYCOGEN |
WHAT IS GLYCOGEN CHANGED INTO? | GLUCOSE |
WHAT IS THE MUSCLES SOURCE OF ENERGY? | GLUCOSE |
WHAT IS RELEASED AS YOU USE YOUR STORED ENERGY? | HEAT |
WHY DO YOU RELEASE HEAT AS YOU USE YOUR ENERGY? | TO WARM THE BODY |
DO THE MUSCLES PROVIDE HEAT? | YES |
DO THE MUSCLES PROVIDE THE ABILTY TO MOVE OR NOT? | THEY DO |
DO THE MUSCLES SUPPORT THE STRUCTURE OF THE BODY? | YES |
CAN THE MUSCLES HOLD THE BODY UPRIGHT? | YES |
WHAT DO THE STRUCTURE OF THE SKELETAL MUSCLES SERVE AS? | TO PROTECT THE BLOOD VESSELS & NERVES WHICH LIE THROUGHOUT THE BODY |
WHAT DO THE MUSCLES PROVIDE PROTECTIVE PADDING FOR? | TO SHIELD DELICATE ORGANS & STRUCTURES FROM INJURY |
DO THE MUSCLES ADD A NICE SHAPE TO THE BODY? | YES |
WHAT ARE THE 3 OF THE FUNCTIONS OF MUSCLES? | TO PROVIDE HEAT TO PROVIDE THE ABILITY TO MOVETO SUPPORT THE STRUCTURE OF THE BODY & HOLD IT UPRIGHT |
WHAT ARE 2 MORE OF THE FUNCTIONS ON MUSCLES? | TO PROTECT THE BLOOD VESSELS & NERVESPROVIDE PROTECTION FOR THE INTERNAL ORGANS & STRUCTURES FROM INJURY |
WHAT IS ANOTHER FUNCTION OF THE MUSCLES? | TO ADD TO THE SHAPE OF THE BODY |
HOW MANY TYPES OF MUSCLE TISSUE ARE THERE? | 3 |
WHAT IS THE FIRST TYPE OF MUSCLE TISSUE? | SKELETAL MUSCLE TISSUE |
WHERE DO SKELETAL MUSCLES ATTACH? | TO BONES |
WHAT DO SKELETAL MUSCLES ATTACH TO BONE FOR? | TO ALLOW FOR MOVEMENT |
WHAT IS THE SECOND TYPE OF MUSCLE ATTACH? | SMOOTH MUSCLE TISSUE |
WHAT IS SMOOTH MUSCLE TISSUE MADE UP OF? | SMALL DELICATE MUSCLE CELLS |
WHERE IS SMOOTH MUSCLE TISSUE FOUND? | THROUGHOUT THE INTERNAL ORGANS OF THE BODY |
WHERE IS THERE NO SMOOTHH MUSCLE? | IN THE HEART |
WHAT IS THE THIRD TYPE OF MUSCLE TISSUE? | CARDIAC MUSCLE TISSUE |
WHERE IS CARDIAC MUSCLE TISSUE FOUND? | THE HEART |
WHAT DO THE MUSCLES DO WHEN THEY CONTRACT? | BECOME SHORTER & THICKER |
WHAT IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF MUSCLE COTRACTION? | THE BICEP OF THE UPPER ARM |
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FLEX YOUR BICEP? | THE BICIP CONTRACTS TO BEND THE ELBOW & THE SHORTER THICKER MUSCLE CAUSES A BULGE IN THE UPPER ARM |
WHAT IS A FLEXOR? | THE SKELETAL MUSCLE THAT BENDS A JOINT |
WHAT MUSCLE STRAIGHTENS A JOINT? | THE EXTENSOR |
WHAT DO THE FLEXOR & EXTENSOR FORM? | A MUSCLE TEAM |
WHAT DOES THE MUSCLE TEAM DO? | BEND & STRAIGHTEN JOINTS |
WHAT IS ANOTHER REASON FOR MUSCLE CONTRACTION? | TO MOVE EXTREMITIES TO & FROM THE CENTER LINE OF THE BODY |
DO MUSCLES PULL OR PUSH? | PULL |
CAN MUSCLES EVER PUSH? | NO NO NO |
ARE SOME MUSCLES PARTIALLY CONTRACTED AT ALL TIMES? | YES |
WHAT MUSCES ARE PARTIALLY CONTRACTED T ALL TIMES? | MOST SKELETAL |
WHY ARE MOST SKELETAL MUSCLES PARTIALLY CONTRACTED AT ALL TIMES? | TO MAINTAIN THE BODY'S ERECT POSITION |
WHAT IS THE CONSTANT STATE OF CONTRACTION KNOWN AS? | MUSCLE TONE |
SOME MUSCULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUE SHEATHS EXTEND TO FORM A STRONG FIBROUS STRUCTURE KNOWN AS WHAT? | A TENDON |
ARE TENDONS EXTREMELY WEAK OR EXTREMELY STRONG? | EXTREMELY STRONG |
DO THE STRETCH? | NO |
WHAT IS THE THICKEST & STRONGEST TENDON IN THE HUMAN BODY? | ACHILLES TENDON |
WHERE DO TENDONS ATTACH? | THE ROUGH SURFACE ON A BONE |
WHAT DOES THE ACHILLES TENDON ATTACH TO? | TO THE GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE TO THE HEEL BONE |
WHERE IS THE GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE? | IN THE CALF OF THE LEG |
WHEN SKELETAL MUSCLES JOIN BONES THAT MEETS AT JOINTS WHAT HAPPENS TO ONE OF THE BONES? | IT BECOMES AN ANCHOR ON WHICH A MUSCLE HAS ITS ORIGIN |
IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE MOVING PARTS OF THE MUSCLES WHAT HAPPENS? | THE MUSCLE GROUPS ARE SEPERATED FROM EACHOTHER |
WHAT IS THE MEMBRANE THAT REDUCES THE FRICTION FROM MOVEMENT CALLED? | A SHEATH |
WHAT IS THE SHAPE OF A SHEATH? | LIKE A SAC |
WHAT IS INSIDE THE SHEATH? | A SLIPPERY FLUID LINING |
WHAT IS THE SLIPPERY FLUID LINING OF A SHEATH CALLED? | A BURSA |
WHERE ARE SMOOTH INVOLUNTARY MUSCLES FOUND? | THROUGHOUT THE INTERNAL ORGANS & STRUCTURES OF THE BODY |
WHERE ARE SPHINCTERS FOUND? | THROUGHOUT THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM & INSIDE THE BLOOD VESSELS OF THE BODY |
WHAT IS A SPHINCTER? | A SMOOTH DONUT SHAPED MUSCLE |
WHAT DO SPHINCTERS DO? | PINCH SHUT INTERMITTENTLY TO CONTROL THE FLOW OF FOOD OR LIQUID |
HOW LONG CAN A SPHINCTER REMAIN CONTRACTED FOR? | HOURS |
WHAT IS TENDONITIS? | A PAINFUL INFLAMMATION OF THE TENDON & TENDON-MUSCLE ATTACHMENTS TO THE BONE |
WHERE IS TENDONITIS COMMONLY FOUND? | AT THE SHOULDER, ELBOW, KNEE, HIP, HEEL, OR HAMSTRINGS |
CAN YOU PUSH OR PULL A MUSCLE? | PULL |
WHAT IS EPICONDYLITIS? | INFLAMMATION OF THE FOREARM TENDON AT THE ATTACHMENT ON THE HUMERUS AT THE ELBOW |
WHAT IS ANOTHER NAME FOR EPICONDYLITIS? | TENNIS ELBOW |
WHAT IS MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY? | A GROUP OF CONGENITAL DISORDERS RESULTING IN PROGRESSIVE WASTING AWAY OF SKELETAL MUSCLES |
WHAT IS TORTICOLIS? | A NECK DEFORMITY WHICH BENDS THE HEAD TO THE AFFECTED SIDE & ROTATES THE CHIN TOWARD THE OPPOSITE SIDE |
WHAT CAUSES TORTICOLIS? | SHORTENING OR SPASM OF THE STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID NECK MUSCLE |
WHAT IS ANOTHER NAME FOR TORTICOLIS? | WRYNECK |