Properties of Muscles
What type of tissue holds muscles together?
connective tissue
Decreasing the angle between two bones or bending the body part (Example: Bending the lower arm up towards the upper arm).
Flexion
What is a common type of contractor you will see?
Foot drop
What condition is characterized by widespread pain in a specific muscle site?
Fibromyalgia
A tough, sheet like membrane that covers and protects the tissue is a?
fascia
The ability to respond to a stimulus such as a nerve impulse is known as?
Excitability
moving limb out to the side away from the body is known as what?
Abduction
The wasting away of muscles caused from lack of use.
Muscle atrophy
What is the definition for muscle pain?
myalgia
Are skeletal muscles voluntary or involuntary muscles?
voluntary
What is it called when Muscles are stimulated by nerves and cause contraction (become short and thick, which causes movement).
contractibility
having control over the muscle is known as what kind of muscle?
Voluntary
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Common adult vaccination injection site
Deltoid
A group of inherited diseases that lead to chronic, progressive muscle atrophy is? Most commonly in males.
muscular dystrophy
movement that moves away from the body is adduction or abduction?
abduction
The ability to be stretched
Extensibility
Muscles that function without conscious thought or control are known as what kind of muscles?
involuntary
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Body movement: The straightening out of a body part example opening a closed fist to stretch the fingers outward.
Extension
Sudden, painful, involuntary muscle contractions.
muscle spasms
Swinging the arm in a circle is an example of
circumduction
allows the muscles to return to its original shape after it has contracted or stretched.
elasticity
Severe tightening of a flexor muscle is known as what?
Contracture
What happens to the muscle's size as it contracts?
It becomes short and thick
a chronic condition where neve impulses are not properly transmitted to the muscle.
myasthenia gravis
State of partial contraction is known as.
Muscle tone