Combining Form
Child or foot
What is ped/o?
Muscle found only in the heart
Cardiac Muscle
Contract without the involvement of nerve supply
What is automaticity?
Movement of a body part away from the midline of the body
What is abduction?
External shoulder
What is the deltoid?
Heart Muscle
What is myocardi/o
What is skeletal muscle?
The ability to resume resting length when stretching force is removed
What is elasticity?
Rotating or drawing a circle with a limb
What is circumduction?
Forehead
What is frontalis?
Straight
What is orth/o
Cannot be controlled by conscious control
What is involuntary muscle?
The ability to receive and respond to a nerve impulse by contracting
What is excitability?
Lowering of a body part
What is depression?
Chest
What is pectoralis major
Joint
What is articul/o
Located in the stomach and intestines
What is smooth muscle?
The ability to shorten
What is contractility?
The act of bending beyond normal range of motion
What is hyperextension?
Anterior lower leg
What is tibialis anterior?
Movement
Muscles that are stimulated through conscious control
What is voluntary muscles
The ability to be stretched
What is extensibility?
Rotational movement of the forearm in which the palm face downward
What is pronation?
Anterior muscle that crosses the thigh obliquely
What is sartorius?