Muscle Names
Muscle on upper arm that flexes lower arm
What is the biceps brachii?
Ability to respond to a stimulus
What is excitability?
Muscle that is found in the heart
What is cardiac?
Decreasing the angle between two bones
What is flexion?
Sudden, involuntary contractions of muscles
What are muscle spasms?
Muscle on upper arm that extends lower arm
What is the triceps?
Ability to be stretched
What is extensibility?
Muscle that attaches to bones so you can move your body
What is skeletal?
Swinging the arm in a circle
What is circumduction?
Overstretching or injury to a musucle and/or tendon
What is a strain?
Muscles between ribs used for breathing
What are the intercostals?
Ability to become short and thick
What is contractility?
Muscle found inside internal organs, responsible for movement of blood, food, etc.
What is smooth/visceral muscle?
Moving the arm away from the side of the body
What is abduction?
Chronic widespread pain in specific muscle sites
What is fibromyalgia?
Muscle that compresses the abdomen
What is the rectus abdominus?
Ability to return to its original shape
What is elasticity?
Tough, cord-like tissue that connects muscles to bones
What are tendons?
Moving a body part toward the midline
What is adduction?
Group of inherited diseases that lead to chronic progressive muscle atrophy
What is muscular dystrophy?
Muscle on upper back and neck that extends head and moves shoulder
What is the trapezius?
Thin, tough, sheet-like tissue that connects muscle to other muscles, stabilizes and surrounds muscle
What is fascia?
Turning a body part on its own axis
What is rotation?
Chronic condition in which nerve impulses aren't transmitted properly to muscles
What is myasthenia gravis?