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Muscles
Characteristics of Muscles
Diseases
Types of Movement
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The muscular system does not protect you. True or False
False
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What muscle is at the side of the neck and attaches to the sternum, clavicle, and mastoid process?
Sternocleidomastoid
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the ability to be stretched is known as what
extensibility
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What is fibromyalgia?
chronic widespread pain in specific muscle sites
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What is Rotation?
moving a body part on its own axis
200
Shivering is a way the muscular system trys to keep your body warm.
True
200
What is your should muscle and is a site for injections?
Deltoid
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the ability to respond to a stimulus such as a nerve impluse
excitability
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What is muscular dystrophy?
Chronic, progressive muscle atrophy
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What is adduction?
moving a body part toward the midline
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What percentage of body weight is made up of muscles?
40%
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What muscle in on your upper back and neck? This muscle extends the head and moves the shoulder.
Trapezius
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to become short and thick, which causes movement
contract
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What is a muscle spasm?
Cramps
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flexion
decreasing the angle between two bones, or bending a body part
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True or False The muscular system does not help your body maintain its posture only the skeletal system does.
False
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What muscle is in between the ribs and allows the ribs to move for breathing?
Intercostals
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allows the muscle to return to its orginal shape after it has contracted or stretched
elasticity
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What is a strain?
Overstrethcing of or injury to a muscle
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What is circumduction?
moving in a circle at a joint
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What are the four functions of the muscular system?
-Provides voluntary movement -Produces heat and engery for the body -helps maintain posture -protect internal organs
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What are the three types of muscles and describe whether they are voluntary or involuntary.
Cardiac - involuntary Skeletal- voluntary Smooth - involuntary
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What are the 4 characteristics of the muscular system
excitability contractability extensibility elasticity
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What is myasthenia gravis?
Chronic condition where nerve impluses are not properly transmitted to the muscles.
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What is extension?
increasing the angle between two bones, or straightening a body part