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Joints Not Blunts
Misc.
100

Activities like running, squatting, and lunging occur around a ______ axis

medial-lateral

100

Hematopoeisis, or the process of ________, occurs in bones such as the pelvis and vertebrae.

blood cell formation

100

Muscles with a larger cross-sectional area (CSA) will have a _____ force capacity.

Larger/greater

100

______ nerves take motor information from proximal to distal.

Efferent

100

Condyloid joints, like the MCP joints, are freely moveable in ___ degrees of freedom 

2 (sagittal and frontal)

100

A muscle stretched produces its maximal amount of force when stretched between ________% of its resting length.

80-130%

200

All movement in a particular plane must occur around an axis, which is situated _____ to the plane

Perpendicular (90 deg)

200

_____ bones develop inside tendons, much like the patella.

Sesamoid

200

Flat muscles, like the rectus abdominis or obliques, attach to a broad ______ which allow for force to spread over a large area

aponeurosis

200

The strongest type of muscle contraction, in which force is created while the muscle is lengthening, is called ____.

Eccentric

200

This type of amphiarthrodial joint is bound by a thick ligament or interosseous membrane, such as the distal radioulnar joint or the distal tibiofibular joint

syndesmosis

200

When a ROM limitation is caused by a multiarticular muscle being maximally stretched at both ends.

Passive insufficiency

300

The two primary motions in the frontal plane include ____ and _____.

Abduction and Adduction

300

_____ bones, like the carpals or tarsals, have a proportionaly larger articular surface in order to articulate with more than one bone.

Short
300

_____ muscles, like the trapezius or latissiumus dorsi, combine features of both flat and fusiform muscles.

Radiate

300

This type of stimulus is strong enough to create an action potential at a motor unit, and all fibers innervated by the motor unit will fire maximally. 

Threshold stimulus

300

Frontal plane motion of the wrist in which the fingers move toward the little finger side of the forearm is called _____.

ulnar deviation

300

T or F: ALL tension created in a muscle (both active and passive contributions) can be used for muscle contraction

False

400

Motions occuring around a longitudinal axis occur in the _____ plane.

Transverse

400

This feature of long bones stay "open" during childhood to allow for growth, but fill in with cartilage during adolescence.

Epiphyseal plates

400

_____ muscles originate and insert solely within the body part on which they act.

Intrinsic

400

Proprioceptors known as ____ detect rate of change of stretch in a muscle, and will cause a muscle to contract in response.

muscle spindles
400

"Rolling the ankle" such as in a common ankle sprain is an example of ankle _____. 

inversion

400
Muscles which support a joint in another plane of motion to create a firm base for motion to occur are known as ____.

Stabilizers

500

If a person flexes their knee to 90 deg, then flexes their hip to 90 deg, then internally and externally rotates their hip, the resultant motion is occurring in the _____ plane.

frontal plane

500

The four major components of bone are ____, ____, ____, and ____.

calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, collagen, and water

500

______ muscles, like the deltoid, have several tendons with fibers running obliquely between them. 

Multipennate

500

A single contract-relax cycle of a muscle.

Twitch
500

The articulation of the proximal phalanx and intermediate phalanx of the middle finger would be named _______. 

3rd PIP joint

500

According to the force-velocity relationship of muscles, a muscle moving at its fastest concentric speed will create a _____ amount of force.

relatively small

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