Diseases and Disorders
Functions
Attachments
Muscle Traits
Types of Muscles
100

Contracture and atrophy result from what?

Lack of muscle use.

100

True or False: 

Doesn't support body posture 

False 

100

Bands of fibrous tissue that attaches muscle to bone.

Tendons

100

What is muscle tone?

The ability of muscles to be slightly contracted at all times, even when not in use

100

What type of muscles are you able to move?

Skeletal muscles

200

What is it called when muscles of tendons are torn or stretched caused by muscles being used too suddenly or for too long?

Muscle Strain

200

Helps with ____ movement

body

200

The end of the muscle that is connected to the bone that does not move.

Origin

200

What is excitability?

The ability to respond to a stimulus

200

True or false?

Cardiac muscles stop the heat from beating

False

300

What is a group of muscle disorders with chronic pain in specific muscle sites?

Fibromyalgia.

300

Produces ____ and energy

Heat

300

The end connected to the bone that moves when the muscle contracts.

Insertion

300

What is conductibility?

The ability to shorten and produce movement when stimulated.

300
2 types of involuntary muscle movement

visceral and cardiac

400

What is muscular dystrophy?

A group of inherited diseases in which the muscles gradually atrophy, or waste away.

400

Opens and closes _____ _____

Body openings

400

A sheet of tough fibrous tissue that wraps around an individual muscle. 

Fascia

400

What is extensibility?

The ability for a muscle to be stretched and lengthened

400

Specific places where visceral muscles are found

Hollow organs, walls of blood vessels, eyes

500

What is atrophy?

A reduction in size and strength of the muscle

500

Helps move ____, ____, and ____ products

Body, Food, Waste

500

Label the following image 


Going down:

Origin, Relaxed muscle, Insertion

On the right: 

Contracted muscle

500

What is elasticity?

The ability for a muscle to return to its original shape after contracting or stretching.

500

What do visceral muscles do to produce movement?

Contract
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