Med Terms
The medical term meaning “pertaining to the heart.”
Cardiac
The division of the skeleton that includes the skull, vertebral column, and ribcage
Axial skeleton
The long bone of the upper arm
Humerus
The type of muscle that is voluntary and attached to bones.
Skeletal muscle
The large muscle on the front of the upper arm.
A prefix meaning “below” or “under.”
Hypo-
What is the name for a bone cell?
Osteocyte
The bone commonly known as the collarbone
Clavicle
The type of muscle found in the walls of organs like the stomach and intestines.
Rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, vastus intermedialis
Quadriceps
The suffix meaning “inflammation.”
-itis
The division of the skeleton that includes the limbs and girdles.
Appendicular skeleton
The two bones in the lower leg
Tibia and fibula
The type of muscle found only in the heart.
Cardiac muscle
The large muscle on the upper back that allows you to shrug your shoulders
Trapezius
The term for a condition of abnormally high blood pressure.
hypertension
What covers the ends of bones at joints to decrease friction between bones?
Articular cartilage
Collective name for the 8 bones in the wrist
Carpals
To give energy to myosin to pull on the actin
The large muscle on the back of the lower leg, it flexes the ankle joint. Commonly called the calf muscle
Gastrocnemius
The medical term meaning “surgical removal of an organ.”
-ectomy
The two types of bone tissue.
Spongy and compact bone
Name the 6 bones that surround the cranial cavity (where your brain goes)
Frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal, sphenoid, ethmoid
This molecule changes the shape of troponin and tropomyosin, which exposes the binding sites on actin for myosin to bind to.
Calcium
Name the four muscles in the abdomen
Rectus abdominis, transversus abdominis, internal abdominal obliques, external abdominal obliques