Muscle Tissue
An individual Muscle Cell.
What is a Muscle Fiber?
Bending
What is Flexion?
The muscle shaped like a trapezoid.
What is the Trapezius muscle?
The number of muscles in the body.
What is over 600?
What is 600 - 700?
An unexplained episode of facial muscle weakness or paralysis.
What is Bell's Palsy?
3 types of muscle tissue.
What are smooth, cardiac, and skeletal?
Muscle movement that increases the angle between two body parts.
What is Extension?
Orbicularis Oculi
What is the muscle around your eye?
14% of the population are born without this muscle.
What is the Palmaris Longus muscle?
A virus that may cause paralysis and is easily preventable by its vaccine.
Individuals like President Roosevelt, Wilma Rudolph, and Frida Kahlo had this disorder.
What is Polio?
Basic contractile unit of a muscle fiber.
What is a Sarcomere?
The ability of muscles to respond to a stimulus.
What is Excitability?
The muscle that gets its name from the Greek letter “delta”.
What is the Deltoid muscle?
The terminology or breakdown of "Bicep". (Bi - Cep)
What is a muscle with two (2) heads?
What are two and cephalic?
Progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass.
Usually caused by genetics that lead to muscle degeneration.
What is Muscular Dystrophy?
Terms used to describe how some muscles move (contract) automatically and other muscles move through cognitive processes.
What is involuntary and voluntary muscle movement?
Movement away from the midline of the body.
What is Abduction?
Powerful muscle of the jaw found on the sides of your head.
What is the Temporalis muscle?
A change or split (bifid) in the zygomaticus major muscle.
What are Dimples?
A disorder of movement, muscle tone, or posture due to abnormal brain development.
What is Cerebral Palsy?
The physiology of a muscle contraction that involves a power stroke between a thick and thin filament.
What is Sliding Filament?
Adduction
What is movement toward the midline of the body?
Tough, fibrous, cord-like tissue that connects muscle to bone.
What is a Tendon?
Any indistinct kind of connective tissue that surrounds muscles or other structures.
What is Fascia?
A disease where the muscles weaken due to nerve cells breaking down and reducing function to the muscles they supply.
What is ALS?
What is Lou Gehirg's disease?