Muscles
The four functions of the muscular system
(1) Moves body - pull bones
(2) Maintains body temperature
(3) Protects organs
(4) Maintains posture.
Striated, voluntary muscles in bones
What are skeletal muscles?
There are 600 of these is the body
What are muscles?
The cells that make up the skeletal system
What are osteocytes?
What is the femur?
Muscles in the heart that are branch-like and involuntary
What are cardiac muscles?
Something that connects muscles to bones
What is a tendon?
Muscle used to flex and rotate leg
What is the hamstring?
Hard, homogenous bones
What are compact bones?
Bones located in the hands
What are carpals, metacarpals, and phelanges?
Short involuntary muscles in the organs
What are smooth muscles?
Muscle located in the shoulder that moves arms away
What is the deltoid?
Muscles over femur that help with walking or running
What are the quadriceps?
Porous bones with many openings
What are spongy bones?
Bones located in the foot
What are tarsals, metatarsals, and phelanges?
What are ligaments?
Muscle that helps with posture and turning the head?
What is the trapezius?
The 6 functions of the skeletal system
(1) Supports body
(2) Protects organs
(3) Allows movement
(4) Stores minerals
(5) Aids in RBC production
(6) Stores chemical energy
Bone that is large and strong in the face
What is the mandible?
The "wing" bone that helps move arm back and forth
What is the scapula?
Muscles tear and become damaged during exercise, muscles grow when they get healed and repaired to help with coordination.
What is the development of muscles?
What is the gluteus?
There are 270 of these in newborns
What are bones?
Bone in pinky that helps determine age
What is the ulna?
This bone is made of cartilage in babies
What is the patella?