This type of bone is found in the wrists and ankles.
What is a short bone?
100
This is the process through which the muscular system functions or moves the body.
What is muscle contraction?
100
This type of synovial joint proves the most mobility.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
100
This type of muscle action occurs by increasing the distance between joints.
What is extension?
200
This used used to aid in determining whether a point on the body is medial or lateral.
What is the midline?
200
This part of the skeleton consists of the 80 bones found in the skull, spinal column (vertebrae), sternum, rib cage, and sacrum.
What is the axial skeleton?
200
These 3 components make up the basic structure of a muscle.
What are the origin, insertion, and muscle belly?
200
Where the bones in the skull come together are good examples of this type of joint because they permit no movement.
What is a fibrous joint?
200
This sequence of events occurs at the molecular level and results in the contraction of a muscle.
What is the sliding filament theory?
300
This is used to describe points on the body which are toward the back.
What is posterior?
300
Flat bones are found here.
What are the ribs?
What is the skull?
What are the scapulae?
What is the sternum?
What is the pelvis?
300
This type of muscle contracts automatically (involuntary), does not tire easily, and can contract for long periods of time.
What is a smooth muscle?
300
This type of synovial joint allows movement around one axis.
What is a hinge joint?
What is a pivot joint?
300
This type of muscle action occurs by moving the a limb toward the body.
What is adduction?
400
My clavicle is this to my cervical vertebrae.
What is anterior?
400
This type of bone is found in the limbs, but excludes the wrists, ankles, and patellae.
What is a long bone?
400
These are 3 examples of ways to take care of your muscles.
What are exercise, nutrition, and rest?
400
This type of joint allows partial movement and is connected by the body's natural "shock absorber."
What is a cartilaginous joint?
400
Once an electrical impulse is sent from the brain, it travels along the nerve to this site where it must "jump the gap" to the muscle.
What is the neuromuscular junction?
500
This is used to describe points on the appendages that are closer to the trunk of the body.
What is proximal?
500
The roles of the skeleton include support, motion, protection, storage, and this.
What is production?
500
This type of muscle is connected to bones by tendons, causes joints to move, and contracts voluntarily.
What is a skeletal muscle?
500
This type of synovial joint allows movement around 2 axes.
What is an ellipsoidal joint?
What is a saddle joint?
500
In the process of muscle contraction, this takes place many times over deep within the muscle fibre, bringing on the sliding of filaments and desired mechanical action.