Biomechanics
The supporting area between the body.
What is the base of support?
Blood vessels that carry blood towards the heart.
What are veins?
When the body moves around an axis of rotation.
What is angular motion?
Flat bone in the shoulder.
What is the scapula?
Moving a limb away from the centre line of the body.
What is abduction?
The three types of muscle in the body.
What are smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscles?
This liquid is made up of 90% water and 10% dissolved materials, and makes up 55% of your blood.
What is Plasma?
Force equals mass times acceleration.
What is Newton's Second Law?
These bones are cube or trapezium shaped.
This lubricates the joint, like oil in a working engine.
What is synovial fluid?
What is striated?
Stop bleeding at the site of a wound.
What are platelets?
The ability to control static or dynamic equilibrium.
What is balance?
Type of synovial joint at base of neck allowing rotation.
What is a pivot joint?
Provides the body's cells with oxygen and removes carbon dioxide.
What is blood?
The tendency for an object to remain in motion or unchanged.
What is inertia?
What is cartilage?
Acts in opposition to the movement generated by the agonist muscle.
What is an antagonist muscle?
The four chambers of the heart.
What are the left/right atrium and left/right ventricles?