Muscle System 1
Three types of muscles
What are Skeletal, Smooth, Cardiac?
Main function of the muscular system
What is movement, posture, and stability?
Type of muscle found only in the heart
What is cardiac?
Most active muscle in the body
What are the muscles that move the eyes?
Muscles that straighten or open a joint
What are extensor muscles?
Type of muscles that connect to bones
What are skeletal muscles?
Connects muscles to bones
What are tendons?
Muscle that looks striped under a microscope
What is striated muscle?
Strongest muscle in the body (by weight)
What is the masseter?
Muscles that close a joint
What are flexor muscles?
Type of muscle found in internal organs
What is smooth muscles?
Inflammation of a tendon
What is tendonitis?
Muscle that contracts without conscious control
What is involuntary muscle?
Largest muscle in the body
What is gluteus maximus?
What is antagonistic muscles?
Scientific name of a muscle cell
What is the Achilles tendon?
Muscles that can be controlled with thought
What are voluntary muscles?
Muscles that display emotion
What are facial muscles?
A muscle that moves over 100,000 times/day
When nerve injury results in being unable to move muscles
What is paralysis?
Name a place on your body you can see a tendon move
What is the back of the hand?
When muscles shrink and become weak
What is atrophy?
Muscles that move the arm below the elbow joint
What are biceps and triceps
The only direction a muscle can move a bone
What is pulling or contracting? (never pushing)