Muscular System 1
What type of muscle is voluntary and attached to bones?
What is skeletal muscle.
What type of muscle is found in internal organs and is involuntary?
What is smooth muscle.
What is the only type of muscle found in the heart?
What is cardiac muscle.
Which muscle type has striations?
What is skeletal muscle.
Name a muscle type that contracts automatically without conscious control?
What are cardiac/smooth muscles.
What is the main function of the muscular system?
What is movement, posture, and stability.
What connects muscles to bones?
What are tendons.
What is the inflammation of a tendon called?
What is tendonitis.
What is the term for torn ligament fibers that result in loosening of the joint?
What is a sprain.
What is the most used muscle in the human body?
What are the eye muscles.
What is the ability of a muscle to return to its original shape after being stretched?
What is elasticity.
What is the name of the largest muscle in the human body?
What is gluteus maximus.
What is a sudden, involuntary muscle contraction called?
What is a muscle cramp.
What is the strongest muscle based on weight?
What is the masseter (jaw muscle).
What is the condition that results in sudden tearing of muscle fibers during exertion; also referred to as a pulled muscle?
What is a strain.
What is the name of the process where muscles contract without relaxing?
What is tetanic contraction.
What is the scientific term for a muscle cell?
What is muscle fiber.
What is the "Popeye" muscle called?
What is the bicep muscle.
What is the name of the condition where muscles waste away due to lack of use?
What is atrophy?
Which muscle in the body never stops working from birth to death?
What is the heart (cardiac muscle).
Which muscle group is responsible for extending the leg at the knee?
What is the quadricep.
What protein is responsible for muscle contraction?
What is Myosin.
What is a condition where muscles weaken due to genetic defects?
What is muscular dystrophy.
What is a condition when the muscle stays in a shortened position if the joint is not moved regularly?
What is contracture.
What is a condition that is a chronic neuromuscular disease that causes gradually increasing muscle weakness?
What is Myasthenia Gravis.