What is it?
What is its purpose?
Potpourri
Odds and Ends
Vocabulary
100

The immovable end of the muscle

What is the origin?

100

Orbicularis oris

What is facial expression (closes eye)?

100

Muscle discovered most recently in a cadaver head

What is the sphenomandibularis?

100

A function of the pigment myoglobin

What is red appearance of a muscle?

100

Insertion

what is the movable end of a muscle?

200

Muscles that contract and assist the prime mover

What are synergists?

200

Diaphragm

What is inspiration (breathing)?

200

When a muscle loses its ability to contract during strenuous exercise

What is muscle fatigue?

200

The design present in cardiac muscle cells

What are striations?

200

muscle pain

What is myalgia?

300

Site of most intramuscular injections of the upper arm

What is the deltoid?

300

Biceps brachii

What is is flexes forearm?

300

Bacteria responsible for the availability of the cosmetic injection Botox

What is Clostridium botulinum?

300

The muscles responsible for the appearance of a "six pack"

What are rectus abdominus?

300

Layers of dense connective tissue that surround and separate muscles

What is fascia?

400

Muscle under your nipple (male and female)

What is the pectoralis major?

400

Masseter and temporalis

What is chewing?

400

The first country to use anabolic steroids in the Olympics

What is the Soviet Union?

400

What is the action of the palmaris longus

What is flexes the wrist ?

400

A single,short contraction involving only  a few motor units

What is a twitch?

500

Enzyme that decomposes acetylcholine

What is acetylcholinesterase??

500

Acetylcholine

What is the chemical that stimulates muscle contraction?

500

The iron lung

What was used to aid polio victims lung function?

500

Over 600 individual organs

What are the number of muscles in the human body?

500

A contraction that is so rapid that that the fiber doesn't relax at all

What is a tetanic contraction?