Muscular System
Name the 3 types of Muscles in the human body.
What is striated (skeletal), smooth and cardiac?
The 2 sub-divisions of the nervous system.
What is the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS)?
In this type of bone the length exceeds the width.
What is a long bone?
A condition that occurs when muscle tissue breaks down. Symptoms include Coca-Cola colored urine.
What is rhadbomyolysis?
A group of genetic diseases that cause progressive weakness and degeneration of skeletal muscles. (muscular system)
What is muscular dystrophy?
What are tendons?
This is composed of a cell body, dendrites and axon.
What is a neuron?
The skull, hyoid, vertebra, ribs and sternum are part of this division of the skeleton.
What is the axial skeleton?
A bone disease that causes bones to break easily. Usually diagnoses with a DEXA scan.
What is osteoporosis?
A disease that breaks down cartilage in joints.
What is osteoarthritis?
This type of muscle is found covering the walls of organs.
What is smooth muscle?
The PNS is divided into the somatic and this other system.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
These make up the skeletal system and is not a bone (hint there are 3 different things).
What is cartilage, ligaments and tendons?
An autoimmune disease causing joint pain, swelling, stiffness and loss of function. (skeletal)
What is rheumatoid arthritis (RA)?
This happens when blood supply to the brain is blocked or reduced.
What is a stroke?
This connection of muscle is the more movable attachment site.
What is insertion?
The autonomic nervous system is broken down into these 2 smaller divisions.
What is the sympathetic and parasympathetic system?
What is the hyoid bone?
A chronic autoimmune disorder where antibodies destroy the connection between nerves and muscles.
What is myasthenia gravis?
A term used to describe a group of symptoms affecting memory - usually caused by Alzheimer's disease.
What is dementia?
This muscle helps the arm adduct.
What is the pectoralis major?
This cranial nerve is responsible for equilibrium and hearing.
What is vestibulocochlear? (8)
This system protects your spinal cord and your brain.
The Skeletal System
What is Parkinson's Disease?
A brain disorder that gradually destroys memory and thinking skills.
What is Alzheimer's Disease?