Anat Intro/Terminology
Concerned with the functions of body parts
What is physiology?
What is bone?
Pumps blood continuously, striated, one nucleus, involuntary
What is cardiac muscle?
Standing upright, feet parallel, palms & face forward, head level, arms hanging to the side
What is anatomical position?
Nearly equal in length and width, cube-shaped
What are short bones?
Covers the entire skeletal muscle
What is epimysium?
Divides the body into superior and inferior parts
What is the transverse plane?
Protect tendons from stress and wear
What are sesamoid bones?
Contractile unit of a muscle fiber
What is a sarcomere?
Divides the body into right and left halves; does not run through the midline
What is the sagittal plane?
Shoulder girdle, upper limbs, pelvic girdle, lower limbs
What is the appendicular skeleton?
Association site of nerve and muscle
What is the neuromuscular junction?
The point at which the mass of a body or object is centered
What is the center of gravity (COG)?
Largest and longest bone of the upper limb
What is the humerus?
Bundles of myofilaments
What is myofibril?