Conditions
A scan that is used to diagnose osteoporosis.
What is DEXA scan
Long bones, clavicle, and ossa coxae belong to _______ skeleton.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
Bending a part of the body anteriorly, such as bending the elbow, decreasing the angle of the elbow joint is ______.
What is Flextion?
When muscle length stays the same and tension increases this is ___________ exercise.
What is isometric?
_______ is the connective tissue that covers an individual muscle fiber.
Endomysium
The styloid process is found on which bone?
The radius.
The bone disorder primarily affects women due to a lack of bone density.
What is Osteoporosis
The relationship between bone deposition and bone reabsorption in people over 45 years old.
Deposition < Reabsorption in people 45 and older with decreasing bone mass and density.
Rolling your ankle, so the bottom of your foot faces medially is _____.
Inversion
________ contractions involve constant tension in the muscle that results in movement.
What is Isotonic?
The Achilles tendon attaches the calf muscles to the ______ bone.
What is calcaneus bone?
______ bone marrow is found in the cavity of mature long bones.
What is Yellow bone marrow?
Rheumatoid arthritis is an _________ disorder?
What is an Autoimmune disorder?
When the epiphyseal plates close, _____ stops.
What is growth?
The triceps brachii _____ the elbow.
What is extends?
What are the four phases of a muscle twitch?
1. Latent phase
2. Contraction phase
3. Relaxation phase
4. Refractory phase
Muscles can be used to _______ feelings through facial expressions.
What is communicate?
_______ are rough areas on a bone that serve as attachment points of muscles by tendons.
What are tuberosities?
Caused by normal wear and tear of a joint or injury to the joint.
What is Osteoarthritis?
Osteoclast produce ________ acid to reabsorb bone.
What is Hydrochloric acid?
Moving the jaw side to side is what muscle action?
What is lateral excursion?
The ability of a muscle cell to return to its original shape after being stretched.
What is elasticity?
The _______ _______ theory of muscle contraction involves thick myofilaments grabbing thin myofilaments and pulling them toward the center of the sarcomere.
What is sliding filament theory?
Myofilaments are the three protein filaments of myofibrils in muscle cells. the proteins are myosin, actin, and titin.
How many bones make up the adult spinal column?
26
7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 1 sacrum, and 1 coccyx
A congenital defect characterized by brittle bones and lack of collagen fibers?
What is osteogenesis imperfecta?
Bones located in the palm of the hand are called ______.
What are metacarpals?
The term that describes bending a body part anteriorly (except the knee).
The correct sequence of muscle contraction (4).
1. Excitation
2. Coupling
3. Contraction
4. Relaxation
A ______ is a muscle that holds an origin stable for another muscle.
What is Fixator?
_____ cartilage covers the ends of long bones.
What is hyaline cartilage?
_______ is a malignant tumor of the bone.
What is osteosarcoma?
Vitamin D converts into ______, which must be present for calcium to be absorbed from the small intestine.
______ describes moving a body part toward the midline.
What is Adduction?
_______ is a diagnostic test used to assess how the muscle responds to electric stimuli.
What is electromyography?
The muscle that closes the eye.
Orbicularis occuli.
The root word cost/o refers to a _____?
Rib.