What is an organ system consisting of skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles?
The Muscular System
What is the point of contact between elements of an animal skeleton with the parts that surround and support it?
Joint
What is the outermost muscles of the three glutei found in each of the human buttocks?
Gluteus Maximus
What is a group of hereditary diseases characterized by wasting of muscles?
Muscular Dystrophy
What is an anti-inflammatory medicine used to treat a range of conditions?
Steroids
What are the striated muscles that usually attach to the skeleton and is usually under voluntary control?
Skeletal Muscles
What is the large flexor muscle of the front of the upper arm?
Bicep Muscle
What is the greater extensor muscle of the front of the thigh that is divided into four parts?
Quadricep Muscle
What is a muscle serving to extend a body part?
Extensor
What is a usually translucent, somewhat elastic tissue that composes most of the skeleton of vertebrate embryos and, except for a small number of structures, is replaced by bone during ossification in the higher vertebrates?
Cartilage
What is the muscle tissue that lacks cross striations made up of elongated spindle-shaped cells?
Smooth Muscles
What is any muscle which is connect the chest with the bone of the upper arm and shoulder and of which there are two on each side of the human body?
Pectoral Muscles
What is the tough cord or band of dense white fibrous connective tissue that unites a muscle with some other part and transmits the force which the muscle exerts?
Tendon
What is a muscle serving to bend a body part?
Flexor
What is to become inactive and lengthen?
Relax
What is the principle of involuntary-muscle tissue of the vertebrate heart made up of striated fibers joined at usually branched ends and functioning in synchronized rhythmic contraction.
Cardiac Muscles
What is the large group of muscles in the front of the abdomen that assist in the regular breathing movement and supports the muscles of the spine while lifting and keeping the abdominal organs such as the intestines in place?
Abdominal Muscles
What is the persistent involuntary hypertonicity of one or more muscles usually central origin and commonly associated with pain and excessive irritability?
Muscle Spasm
What is a person qualified to treat diseases, injuries, or deformities by physical methods such as massage, heat treatment, and exercise?
Physiotherapist
What is to reduce to smaller size by or as if by squeezing or forcing together?
Contract
What is a tough fibrous band of tissue connecting the articulation extremities of bones or supporting an organ in place?
Ligament
What is the large triangular muscle that covers the shoulder joint and serves to raise the arm laterally?
Deltoid Muscle
What is the therapeutic use of chemical agents to treat diseases?
Chemotherapy
What is a disability resulting from damage to the brain before, during or shortly after birth and outwardly manifested by muscular incoordination and speech disturbance?
Cerebral Palsy
What is the peripheral nervous system associated with the voluntary control of body movements?
Somatic Nervous System