Muscles
What is the name for a group of diseases that cause atrophy and weakness in skeletal muscles?
What is Muscular Dystrophy?
The number of true ribs found in the human body?
What is 12?
My/o or Myos/o
What are muscle(s) or muscle tissue?
Arthr/o
What is joint?
What are the five (5) main functions of the musculoskeletal system?
What are movement, support, protection, heat generation, and blood circulation?
The correct medical term for muscle pains or aches.
What is myalgia?
There are two (2) main divisions in the skeletal system. One is the appendages while the other is the center.
What are the axial and appendicular skeleton?
Flexible, tough band of fibrous connective tissue that attaches one bone to another at a joint
What is a ligament?
Oss/e or oste/o
What is bone?
Lateral deviation of the spine
What is scoliosis?
The type of muscle that pumps blood through the body.
What is cardiac muscle?
Name four (4) components of the musculoskeletal system?
What are bones, muscles, ligaments, and joints, tendons and cartilage?
Chrond/o
What is cartilage?
Ankyl/o
What is stiff or bent?
The term for bone shaft
What is the diaphysis?
These are the three (3) types of muscle.
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle
What is the joint type found in the knee and elbow?
What are hinge joints?
-malacia
What is softening?
Mandibul/o
What is the lower part of the jaw?
The medical term used to describe one or more bones in a joint being out of position
What is dislocation?
The involuntary muscle types are...
What are smooth and cardiac muscle.
This is the bone that makes up the lower jaw
What is the mandible?
Band of fibrous connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone
What is a tendon?
Kyphosis
What is the abnormal condition of a hump?
The medical term for paralysis of the muscles along one side of the body (e.g., the face, arm, leg etc. on the right side of the body)