Name that Muscle
Key Terms
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Key Terms
Word Dissections
100


Deltiod

100

Where is your Trapezuis?


100

What does Hypo mean?

Low

100

Plantar Flexion 

 movement of the foot in a downward motion away from the body.

100

What does Histo mean?

Tissue

200


Biscep

200

Abductor 

a muscle whose contraction moves a limb or part away from the midline of the body, or from another part.

200

Define Inversion and Eversion 

Double Points!!

Inversion-the movement of the sole towards the median plane.

Eversion- the act of turning inside out

200

Circumduction 

Movement of a part in a circular direction.

200

What does Hemi mean?

Half

300


Semimembronosus 

300

Dorsiflexion 

 the backward bending and contracting of your hand or foot.

300

Flexor Halucis Brevis 


300

a muscle whose contraction moves a part of the body directly.

Agonist 

300

What is the word for Muscle?

Myo

400


Pectoral 

400

the action of bending or the condition of being bent, especially the bending of a limb or joint.

Flexion 

400

What does Hyper mean?

Higher

400

Fascicle

a bundle of structures, such as nerve or muscle fibers or conducting vessels in plants.

400

What is the word for Many?

Poly

500


Gluteus Maximus 

500


a muscle whose contraction moves a limb or other part of the body toward the midline of the body or toward another part.

 

Double Points!!

Adductor 

500

Isotonic Contractions

tension remains the same, whilst the muscle's length changes

500

a physical position that increases the angle between the bones of the limb at a joint

Extension


500

What is the word for About or Around?

Peri