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100
This is another name for the muscular system.
What is the musculoskeletal system?
100
This is what each muscle fiber is composed of.
What are myofibrils?
100
This is the term for bending?
What is flexion?
100
This is the term for small circle.
What is orbicul/o-?
100
This is the term for when the part of a muscle branches up or when a section of a muscle contracts involuntarily.
What is a contracture?
200
These are the type of of muscles that are voluntary and that provide the means by which the body can move.
What are the skeletal muscles?
200
This is what a muscle is composed of.
What are muscle fasicles?
200
This is the term for stretching?
What is extension?
200
This is the term for giving ability.
What is habilitat/o-?
200
This is the general term for a muscle disease or damage.
What is myopathy?
300
These are the type of muscles that are involuntary and pump blood through the body.
What are cardiac muscles?
300
These are the two proteins that myofibrils contain.
What are actin and myosin?
300
This is the term for moving away from the midline.
What is abduction?
300
This is the term for bruising.
What is contus/o-?
300
This is the term for and inflamation of fluid in the joint.
What is bursitis?
400
These are the type of muscles that are involuntary and nonstriated.
What are smooth muscles?
400
This is a chemical messenger that changes the permeability of the muscle fiber, which shortens the muscle and produces a muscle contraction.
What is acetylcholine?
400
This is the term for turning the palm anterior upwards.
What is supination?
400
This is the term for to travel or to turn.
What is vers/o-?
400
This is the term for when your legs twitch at night because of a lack of sleep.
What is the restless leg syndrome?
500
This is the term that refers to all of the muscles in the body.
What is the musculature?
500
This is what a muscle fiber contains hundreds of.
What are nuclei?
500
This is the term for moving the palm downwards.
What is pronation?
500
This is the term for clavicle.
What is cleid/o?
500
This is the term for the inflamation of the fascia.
What is fasciitis?