Muscles
The muscle primarily responsible for flexion at the elbow.
What is the bicep?
The kneecap.
What is the patella?
The elbow and knee.
What is a hinge joint?
Decreasing the joint angle.
What is flexion?
Towards the top.
What is superior?
The muscle primarily responsible for extension at the elbow.
What is the tricep?
The collarbone.
What is the clavicle?
The shoulder and hip.
What is a ball and socket joint?
Increasing the joint angle.
What is extension?
Towards the back.
Motor unit recruitment begins with smaller motor units and progresses to larger ones.
What is the Size Principle?
A primary function of the skeletal system highly relevant to the ribs encasing the heart and lungs.
What is provides protection?
The neck, ulna, and radius.
What is a pivot joint?
What is abduction?
Towards the front.
What is anterior?
If a nerve impulse reaches a certain threshold, all muscles controlled by that motor unit contract maximally and simultaneously.
What is the All or Nothing Principle?
A primary function of the skeletal system concerned with transporting oxygen around the body.
What is produces RBC?
The wrist.
What is a condyloid joint?
Moving the end of a limb in a circular motion.
What is circumduction?
Towards the body's midline.
What is medial?
A motor neuron and all the muscle fibres it controls.
What is a motor unit?
A primary function of the skeletal system concerned with calcium, phosphorus, sodium, and potassium.
What is stores minerals?
The thumb.
What is a saddle joint?
What is dorsi flexion?
Surface level.
What is superficial?