Muscle Types
What are the three types of muscles?
What is cardiac, skeletal, smooth?
A skeletal muscle that can be found in the arm?
What is biceps brachii?
What is triceps brachii?
What is brachioradialis?
What is the main muscle aids in breathing?
What is the diaphragm?
What are the four muscle characteristics?
What is contractibility, excitability, extensibility, and elasticity?
What does myalgia mean?
What is muscle pain?
What is the function/purpose of cardiac muscle?
What is to cause the heart to beat or circulate blood?
This muscle commonly referred to as a person's "6 pack"
What is the rectus abdominus?
What should a football player who experiences a calf muscle strain do to treat it?
What is RICE?
What is rest, ice, compress, elevate?
Which characteristic describes the ability for muscles to be stretched?
What is extensibility?
What term describes muscles becoming weak, flaccid and shrinking from not using them?
What is atrophy?
What is the main muscle of the upper back?
What is the trapezius?
What disease is caused by a toxin that causes a constant spasm of voluntary muscles?
What is tetanus?
What characteristic of muscles describe the ability to return to its original length when relaxed?
What is elasticity?
What disorder is defined as a tear in the muscle resulting from excessive use?
What is a muscle strain?
What is a strain?
What type of muscle is considered the fourth type and found throughout the digestive and urinary system?
What are sphincters?
What muscle can be found in the posterior aspect of the lower leg?
What is the gastrocnemius?
What is the soleus?
What is the specific muscle around the mouth called?
What is the orbicularis oris?
Which characteristic of muscle describes the ability to respond to certain stimuli by producing electrical signals called action potentials (or IMPULSES)?
What is excitability?
What is the disorder that is characterized by an organ protruding through a weak muscle?
What is a hernia?
What type of muscle opens and closes to control the passage of substances?
What are spincters?
If your friend raises their eyebrows in excitement and smiles what two muscles are they using?
What is the frontalis and the zygomaticus major?
When muscles attach to bones, the end of the muscle that attaches to moveable bone is then:
What is the insertion?
Stretching a rubber band and allowed it to recoil sees which two characteristics of muscles displayed?
What is extensibility and elasticity?
What disease is described as progressive muscle weakness and is normally diagnosed in boys 9-11?
What is muscular dystrophy?