Key Terms
The maintains constant tension as the muscle changes length
What is Isotonic
What flex the knee joint and extend the hip
What is Hamstrings
The chewing muscle of
the upper jaw that covers the
temporal bone
What is temporalis
mostly affects women, with symptoms of muscle pain, fatigue, sleep disorders, memory loss, mood swings
What is Fibromyalgia
The muscle tear and/or damage to the tendons
What is Strain
The attachment site for skeletal muscle to bone that does not move during muscle contraction
What is origin
The long thin muscle
on the femur. Part of the quads.
Helps with knee extension and hip
flexion
What is Rectus Femoris
The Medical Terminology for hyper
excessive
An organ pushes through an opening ina muscle
What is Hernia
The back of the body
What is anterior
The deficiency of oxygen from physical activity
What is Oxygen debt
on the front of
the tibia. Dorsiflex and inverts
the foot.
What is Tibialis Anterior
The smiling muscle
What is Zygomaticus major
The sudden involuntary contraction of a muscle
What is Muscle spasms
The inflammation of the tendon
What is tendonitis
produces movement of a muscle in a single direction
What is prime mover
The lower back muscle. Largest muscle in the
upper body
What is Latissimus Dorsi
What is the Medical Terminology for tri
What is three
The progress weakness and loss of muscle mass, mostly affects boys
What is Muscular dystrophy
The front of the body
What is posterior
The rotation of the hand and forearm so that the palm faces downward
What is pronation
The longest muscle in the
human body. Runs from the hip,
across the thigh to the medial
knee. Crossing your legs is one
function.
What sartorius
What is the Medical Terminology for equal
What is iso
The Autoimmune disease, A weakness and rapid fatigue of muscles under voluntary control (causing weakness of arms or leg muscles, double vision, drooping eyelids
What is Myasthenia Gravis
lockjaw, serious illness caused by clostridium bacteria
What is tetanus