Break It Down
The medical term for "muscle pain"
What is myodynia or myalgia?
The muscle type found in the walls of the heart?
What is cardiac muscle?
Pointing your toes down like a ballerina standing on her tiptoes?
What is plantarflexion?
Muscle responsible for raising the eyebrows and wrinkling the forehead.
What is the frontalis?
Inflammation of a muscle.
What is myositis?
The medical term for incision into the fascia."
What is fasciotomy?
The type of muscle found in the urinary bladder and small intestine?
What is smooth muscle?
Bending your foot upward toward your shin.
What is dorsiflexion?
Muscle on the back of the arm that extends the forearm.
What is the triceps brachii?
Paralysis of both legs and often lower trunk.
What is parplegia?
Breakdown the word dystaxia, into is prefix and root word meanings.
What are dys-difficult/bad
tax/o-coordination
The ability of a muscle like the gastrocnemius to be stretched.
What is extensibility?
Moving a leg sideways away from the midline of the body, like mounting a horse.
What is abduction?
Large chest muscle that flexes, adducts, and rotates the arm.
What is the pectoralis major?
Protrusion of a muscle through a tear in its surrounding fascia.
What is a myocele?
The medical term meaning "rupture or tearing of a tendon."
What is tenorrhexis?
Term for the muscle that causes a body part's primary movement?
What is agonist?
Turning the wrist downward or backward when reaching over to grab a pen.
What is pronation?
Longest muscle in the body that flexes and rotates the thigh and flexes the leg.
What is the sartorius?
Standard first-aid acronym treatment for acute muscular injuries.
What is R.I.C.E. (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation)?
The root word in dorsiflexion menas "to bend."
What is flex?
The medical term for hernia or swelling of a muscle?
What is a myocele?
Rotating the leg outward so the heels are together and toes point away from the midline.
What is lateral (external) rotation?
Muscle on the anterior lower leg that dorsiflexes and inverts the foot.
What is the tibialis anterior?
A graphic recording of the contraction of a muscle as a result of electrical stimulation.
What is a Electromyogram?