Joints and Motion
Muscle Function
Blood Flow
Energy and Motion
Surviving the Extremes
100
A place where the elements of skeleton come together.
What is a joint?
100
This is the functional unit of a muscle fiber.
What is sarcomere?
100
The amount of blood ejected from the left side of the heart in one minute.
What is Cardiac Output?
100
Define muscle fatigue?
What is the inability of muscle to maintain its strength of contraction or tension; may be related to insufficient oxygen, depletion of glycogen, and/or lactic acid buildup
100
What element is replaced with nitrogen to replace nitrogen narcosis (a drowsy state induced by breathing air under higher than atmospheric pressure, for example, in deep-sea diving)?
What is helium?
200
An instrument for measuring angles (as of a joint or skull)
What is a Goniometer
200
Interactions between actin and myosin are responsible for...
What is muscle contraction?
200
The volume of blood pumped by a ventricle in one heart beat.
What is Stroke Volume?
200
This hormone stimulates red blood cell production.
What is Erythropoietin?
200
The boy in the amazon injured what nerve and what is its function?
What is the radial nerve?
300
A usually translucent somewhat elastic tissue that composes most of the skeleton of vertebrate embryos and except for a small number of structures
What is cartilage?
300
This type of muscle is dense, contains intercalated discs, and is striated. Why is it so dense?
What is cardiac muscle? Because of a lot of myosin and actin heads.
300
A condition in which veins become weak, and twisty. Valves do not seem to work and causes fluid accumulation.
What are varicose veins?
300
A highly branched polymer of glucose containing thousands of subunits; functions as a compact store of glucose molecules in liver and muscle fibers
What is glycogen and where is it stored?
300
The most efficient killing machine, has more ways of tracking down a target than a cruise missile.
What is a shark?
400
An unbending movement around a joint in a limb (as the knee or elbow) that increases the angle between the bones of the limb at the joint
What is extension?
400
The attachment of a muscle tendon to a movable bone or the end opposite the origin.
What is the insertion?
400
List the arteries that branch off of the aorta.
What is, the brachiocephalic, left subclavian, and carotid arteries?
400
A technique for temporarily improving athletic performance in which oxygen-carrying red blood cells previously withdrawn from an athlete are injected back just before an event
What is blood doping?
400
The crazy Italian Policeman?
Who is Mauro Prosperi?
500
Ball-and-Socket, Pivot, Hinge.
What are the types of synovial joints
500
The hardening of the muscles and stiffening of the body that begins 3 to 4 hours after death. It occurs partly because the sarcoplasmic reticulum deteriorates upon death, releasing calcium into the cytosol.This will cause the actin and myosin cross-bridge to activate, and thus muscle contraction.
What is Rigor Mortis?
500
List the layers of a blood vessel.
What is the tunica adventitia, tunica media, and tunica intima?
500
An organic acid present in blood and muscle tissue as a product of the anaerobic metabolism of glucose and glycogen
What is lactic acid?
500
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