Skeletal System
Connective tissue that connects one bone to another.
What is a ligament?
Category of muscles that are responsible for helping you breath, heart beat, and moving food through digestive system.
What are involuntary muscles?
2 organs that make up the central nervous system.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
What are nerves made out of?
What are neurons (A.K.A nerve cells)?
What is a dislocation?
Connective tissue that connects muscles to bone.
What is a tendon?
Muscles that closes joints.
What are flexors?
The largest most complex part of the brain.
What is the Cerebrum?
Half of the PNS responsible for involuntary movement.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Part of the neuron that transmits impulses away from the cell body towards another neuron.
What is an axon?
Acts as a cushion between two bones to reduce friction.
What is cartilage
Type of striated muscle that forms the wall of the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
Part of the brain that coordinates movement as well as maintains posture and balance.
What is the cerebellum?
The half of the PNS responsible for voluntary movement.
What is the somatic nervous system?
Injury consisting of inflammation of a tendon.
What is tendonitis?
The point at which two bones meet.
What is a joint?
Group of muscles that open joints.
What are extensor muscles?
Area of the brain responsible for conscious thought.
What is the Cerebrum?
Half of the Autonomic nervous system responsible for the "fight or flight" response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Part of the neuron that branches off and receives information from from another neuron.
What are dendrites?
Process by which bone is formed, renewed, and repaired.
What is ossification?
Long cells that make up a muscle.
What are muscle fibers?
Connects Spinal Cord to the rest of the brain.
What is the brain stem?
The half of the autonomic system responsible for rest and relaxation.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
Type of fracture where the parts of the bone do not separate.
What is a hairline fracture?