Vocabulary
This condition occurs when an organ or tissue protrudes through an area of weak muscle.
What is a hernia?
Processes that happen without your consciously controlling them.
What are involuntary processes?
This muscle front part of the upper arm.
What is a bicep?
The best way to keep your muscles strong and healthy.
What is regular physical activity?
This nutrient is used to build muscles.
What is protein?
The muscles attached to bone and cause body movements.
What are Skeletal muscles?
The main function of the muscular system.
What is movement?
The large muscle that lies on the front of the upper arm between the shoulder and the elbow.
What is the bicep?
An injury to the ligament in a joint, and requires medical treatment.
What is a sprain?
This nutrient is most important for energy.
What are carbohydrates?
The inflammation of a tendon.
What is tendinitis?
The muscle that opens a joint. Or the muscle that whose contraction extends a limb.
What is the extensor?
The tendon that connects the calf muscle to the heel bone.
What is the Achilles tendon.
An area of discolored skin that appears after an injury causes blood vessels beneath the skin to rupture and leak.
What is a bruise?
The nutrients that are charged ions when mixed with water. They are lost when you sweat.
What are electrolytes
The muscles that act on the lining of passageways and internal organs.
What are smooth muscles?
The muscle that closes a joint. Or the muscle that whose contraction bends a limb.
What is a flexor?
The system that keeps the muscles shape.
What is the skeletal system?
Results when a muscle is stretched or partially torn as a result of overexertion.
What is a strained muscle?
The natural tension in the fibers of a muscle.
What is muscle tone?
An inherited disorder in which skeletal muscle fibers are progressively destroyed.
What is muscular dystrophy?