Planes of movement
Divides the body into top and bottom and allows rotational movements of the torso and the limbs.
What is the transverse plane?
It means that is farther away from the midline
What is medial?
It's the type of cell in charge of the resorption and destruction of damaged bone tissue.
What is an osteoclast?
The tissue that connects a bone to another bone.
What is a ligament?
It's the tissue that connects a muscle to a bone.
Splits the body right in the middle into right and left, and allows forward and backward movements.
What is the saggital plane?
This locational term refers to a structure that is closer to the head.
What is cranial?
Structure, storage and protection
What are the 3 functions of the skeletal system?
It's a connective tissue that works as cushion in between bones in a joint.
What is cartilage?
Smooth, cardiac and skeletal.
What are the 3 types of muscle?
Allows side to side movements.
What is the frontal plane?
It means to move an limb or structure away from the midline.
What is abduction?
It's a type of bone present in the chest, cranium and shoulder blades.
What is a flat bone?
These joints allow movement in just one plane.
What is a hinge joint?
The type of contraction that doesn't change muscle lenght or joint angle.
What is an isometric contraction?
This plane divides the body into front and back.
What is the frontal plane?
It means that the angle of a joint is decreasing.
What is flexion?
It's a pathology of the bones caused by fragility due to low density of the spongy tissue.
What is osteoporosis?
It's a joint that allows limited rotational movement, present in the neck, for example when the head moves side to side, saying "no".
What is a pivot joint?
Isotonic and Isometric
What are the 2 types of muscle contraction?
The plane of movement you get into when you walk, run, sit down or stand up from a chair.
What is the Saggital plane?
It means the angle of a joint is increasing.
What is extension?
The only sesamoid bone in the body.
What is the patella?
These provide the widest range of motion in the body, including circumduction.
What is a ball and socket joint?
The first one is shortening the muscle as well as the angle of the joint they move and the second one is lenghtening them.