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What is the function of the Heart muscle?
To pump blood to all parts of your body
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What is the largest muscle in your body?
Gluteus Maximus
100
What disease causes weakness in your skeletal muscles
Myasthenia Gravis
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What is the Cardiac muscle called?
The Heart!
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What System uses Smooth muscles to move liquid waste through your body?
Excretory System
200
What is the purpose of the Diaphragm Muscle?
It forces the lungs down by contracting.
200
How many muscles are in your body?
Over 650!
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What Disease is an inflammation that progressively weakens the Skeletal muscles?
Polymyositis
200
Name 1 smooth muscle organ
Tell your answer to Grady
200
What system uses Smooth muscles to move solid waste through the body?
Digestive System
300
The muscles responsible for doing what have the greatest endurance?
The muscles that hold up the body.
300
How many major muscles do you use when you smile?
You use 12!
300
What disease messes your balance up and motor movements(functions)?
Cerebral palsy
300
What kind of muscle is your Diaphragm?
It is a skeletal muscle
300
What system has Smooth muscles that delivers air to the body?
Respiratory system
400
The Esophagus uses what movement to push down small food particles?
Peristalsis
400
When you read a book for an hour your eyes make how many coordinated movements?
about 10,000!
400
What is the most common Neuromuscular Junction Disorder?
Lou Gehrig Disease
400
Name 3 skeletal muscles
Tell Tyler your answer
400
What system Protects the Muscular System and the rest of your body?
Integumentary System
500
what are two muscular organs that use peristalsis in the digestive system?
Tell Grady your answer!
500
Myo is a Greek Prefix that means what?
Muscle
500
What medical condition is an internal bleeding of the muscle caused by an impact rupturing underlying blood vessels?
A Bruise
500
Name 3 smooth muscle organs in the Digestive System
Tell Tyler your answer
500
What system sends impulses to the Muscular System?
Nervous System