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Anatomy Flashcards

1
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How many Systems are in the body?

A

10
Skeletal
Circulatory
Digestive
Endocrine
Lymphatic (Immune)
Muscular
Respiratory
Excretory (Urinary)
Nervous
Reproductive

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2
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How many bones are in the human body?

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206

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3
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What are joints?

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where 2 or more bones make contact

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4
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Types of Joints? In yoga we focus on these three?

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Hinge
Ball and Socket
Intervertebral/Compressive

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5
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What is Fascia? Where is it located?

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Continuous sheet of fibrous tissue located beneath the skin and around everything in the body.

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6
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What does a Ligament do?

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Connects bone to bone, stabilizes the joint - have limited to no elasticity.

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7
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What does a Tendon do?

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Connects muscle to bone

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8
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How many vertebrae/bones in the cervical spine?

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7

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How many vertebrae/bones in the Thoracic Spine?

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12

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10
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How many vertebrae/bones in the Lumbar Spine?

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5

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11
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How many vertebrae/bones in the Sacral Spine

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5

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12
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How many vertebrae/bones in the Coccyx

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3 - 5

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13
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How many primary Chakras are there?

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7
1. Muladhara - Root
2. Svadhisthana - Sacrum
3. Manipura - solar plexus - just below the rib cage.
4. Anahata - heart center
5. Vishuddha - throat
6. Ajna - Third eye
7. Sahasrara - crown of head

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14
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What are the three planes of movement?

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  1. Sagittal Plane
  2. Coronal Plane
  3. Transverse Plane
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15
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What are the two ranges of motion for Sagittal Plane?
Summersalt

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  1. Flexion - Forward
  2. Extension - Back
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What are the two ranges of motion for the Coronal Plane?
Cartwheel
Pelvis: “Disco”

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  1. Abduction - Out/Away - (I’m being abducted)
  2. Adduction - Adding limb back in.
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17
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What are the two ranges of motion in Transverse Plane?
Pelvis: “Twist”

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  1. Internal Rotation
  2. External Rotation
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18
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Creating less space in a joint is flexion, True or False?

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True

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19
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List 5 functions of your bones

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  1. Create structure & support
  2. Allow for movement at joints
  3. Protect Internal Organs
  4. Store calcium and mineral salts
  5. Produce red and white blood cells
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20
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Why is the spine so important?

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Spine is the central access of support and our unifying scaffold for movement.

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21
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List the 6 functions of your spine

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  1. Protects the spinal cord
  2. provides planes of movement
  3. Houses ribs
  4. Site of muscle attachment
  5. Protects internal organs
  6. ease of movement - curves and discs provide shock absorbers
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22
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Yoga is a ________ based practice?

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Spine

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23
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Anatomical position looks like what pose?

A

Mountain

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24
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What plane is: Flexion and Extension

A

Sagittal Plane

25
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What plane is: Abduction and Adduction

26
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What plane is: Internal and External rotation?

A

Transverse Plane

27
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What plane of movement is the body in: Uttanasana (standing forward fold)?

28
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What plane of movement is the body in: Virabrhadrasana II (Warrior II)?

29
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What plane of movement is the body in: Parivrtta Trikonasana (Revolved Triangle)

A

Transverse

30
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Abduction takes the limbs away from the body, True or False

31
Q

Name a pose where the thighs are adducted at the hip.

A

Mountain or Eagle

32
Q

Flexing one’s toes back towards the shin brings the ankle into _______________ flexion?

33
Q

True or False: The Diaphragm contracts on the inhale?

34
Q

Does the diaphragm descend or recoil on the exhale?

35
Q

Ligaments connect __________ to ______________

A

bone to bone

36
Q

Tendons connect ___________ to _______________

A

Muscle to bone

37
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True or False: A joint is in a place where two bones articulate

38
Q

How many bones are there in a “normal” human body?

39
Q

List the 3 major sections of the spine?

A

Cervical, Thoracic & Lumbar

40
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How many vertebrae in the Thoracic spine?

41
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What plane is this?

A

Sagittal plane

42
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What plane is this?

A

Coronal Plane

43
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What plane is this?

A

Transverse plane

44
Q

A summer salt is an example of what plane?

45
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A cartwheel is an example of what plane?

46
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The twist is an example of what plane?

A

Transverse

47
Q

List four functions of muscles

A

create movement
stabilize and support the body - maintain posture
Keep our heart beating
move stuff through our body - food, waste blood

48
Q

three types of muscles in the body

A

Cardiac
Smooth
Striated or Skeletal

49
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Qualities /purpose of cardiac muscle:

A
  1. Pump blood
  2. only found in the heart
  3. Involuntary
  4. pumping blood to everywhere in body
  5. fatigue resistant
  6. Striated
50
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Qualities/purpose of smooth muscle:

A

Involuntary
Digestion, moving food through the body,
non-striated
Uterus
bladder
eyes - iris
skin - cold, hair stands up, etc.
Fatigue resistant

51
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Qualities/purpose of skeletal muscle:

A

Voluntary
Striated (aligned in one direction)
movement, mobility
heat production
respiration
stability
contractibility (shorten only does not lengthen

52
Q

Involuntary, striated, resistant to fatigue (Muscle characteristic)

A

Cardiac Muscle

53
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Voluntary movement, striated (muscle)

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Skeletal Muscle

54
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Involuntary, found in vessels and organs, non-striated (muscle)

A

Smooth Muscles

55
Q

What is connective Tissue?

A

Holds us together
Composed of Fascia, Ligaments and Tendons

56
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Types of Connective Tissue

A

Supportive Connective Tissue - Bones
Fluid Connective - Blood, Lymph
Connective Tissue Proper - Fascia, Fat, Ligaments

57
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Connective Tissue - Most Dense, Bones & Cartilage

A

Supportive

58
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Connective Tissue - Most fluid, Blood, Lymph, Extracellular Matrix (ECM) or ground substance

59
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Connective Tissue - Fascia, Fat, Ligaments, Tendons

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