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Name that muscle
Diseases
Physiology
Function
Miscellaneous
100
Gluteus Maximus
What is the muscle that we call buttocks
100
Hypertrophy
What is the word for overdeveloped muscles?
100
Type of muscles that we control
What is voluntary muscles
100
What are the 3 functions of the muscles?
Body, temp, form, movement
100
What Is the medical word for "muscle pain"?
What is Myalgia
200
Deltoid
What is the muscle that we typically give shots into as nurses (in the arm?
200
Atrophy
What is the word for underdeveloped?
200
This muscle is only found in one organ
What is cardiac muscle
200
What are the 2 types of involuntary muscles?
What is smooth muscle and cardiac muscle
200
Name 2 involuntary functions muscles perform
What is breathing, heart beating, food moving along the GI tract, blood vessels dilating and constricting
300
Quadriceps
What is the group of 4 muscles that make up the muscles on the anterior part of the upper leg?
300
The connection between the nerves and the muscles are lost; muscles are very weak
Myasthenia Gravis
300
This type of muscle is involuntary; found in blood vessels, and the GI tract; cells are small and spindle-like
What is smooth muscle
300
What does Extensibility mean?
What is the ability to be stretched
300
What is a group of diseases in which the muscle cells deteriorate and patients usually end up losing the ability to walk?
What is muscular dystrophy?
400
Zygomaticus
What is the muscle that covers our cheek bones?
400
symptoms consist of chronic pain last months or years, headache, fatigue, numbness, tinging and joint pain
What is Fibromyalgia
400
What is the ability to respond to a stimuli by producing a signal or impulse (action potential)
What is excitability/irritability
400
What does Elasticity mean?
What is the ability to go back to its original length after relaxing
400
Running or swimming is an example of which kind of muscle contraction?
What is isotonic contraction?
500
Rectoris Abdominus
What is the muscle responsible for the "wash board stomach" look?
500
What is it when an organ protrudes thru a weakened muscle?
What is a hernia
500
What is the ability for a muscle to shorten in response to a stimuli?
What is Contractility
500
Skeletal muscles must be stimulated by what to contract?
What is nerve impulse?
500
To make energy the cell needs what 2 things
What is oxygen and glucose