Skeletal
What is the strongest and largest bone in your body
What is the femur
What is the hardest working muscle in the body?
What is the heart
What are joints composed of?
What are bones, muscles, cartilage, and ligaments
What is the most common type of arthritis caused by normal "wear and tear" on the joints?
What is osteoarthritis
We get a new _____ every 7-10 years?
What is a new skeleton
What are the 5 major bone types in the body?
What are flat, long, short, irregular, and sesamoid
The muscle origin connects to the less movable of the two bones in a joint, what is the other end called that connects to the more movable bone?
What is the insertion site
What are the three functional types of joints?
What are synarthroses (non-moving), amphiarthroses (partly moving), and diarthroses (fully movable)
What disorder causes widespread pain, chronic fatigue, GI issues, and headaches? All while the cause is unknown
What is Fibromyalgia
What is the smallest bone in the body?
What is the stapes in the middle ear
What bones make up the axial skeleton?
What are the skull, vertebral column, and thoracic cage
What are the 3 types of muscles in the human body?
What are skeletal or striated, smooth, and cardiac muscles
What type of joint makes your thumbs opposable?
What are saddle joints
What is an inflammatory arthritis caused by a buildup of uric acid crystals in a joint?
What is gout
What are osteocytes and what do they do?
What are mature bone cells that tell the osteoclasts (bone breakers) and the osteoblasts (bone makers) what to do
What are 3 things the skeleton does for the body?
Support the body, facilitate movement, protect the internal organs, produce blood cells, and store and release minerals and fat.
What type of muscle is found in the walls of hollow organs such as the bladder, uterus, arteries and veins?
What are smooth muscles
What is the connective tissue that attaches bone to bone at a joint?
What are ligaments
What is an abnormal, lateral curvature of the spine, often accompanied by twisting of the vertebrae?
What is scoliosis
What allows the iris of the eye to expand and contract?
What is smooth muscle
What are the crosshatch supports, that appear porous and honeycomb like in appearance called?
What are trabeculae
What are the 4 functional groups of muscles?
What are the prime movers, antagonists, synergists, and the fixators
This injury to a joint is caused when the ligament is stretched or torn.
What is a sprain
What disorder results from the body's inability to make dystrophin causing progressive muscle weakness?
What is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
What allows cardiac muscle to contract in a wavelike pattern, performing a pumping motion for our blood?
What are the intercalated discs