Chpt 7

Question 0

Adductor

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Muscle the draws a part toward the middle

Question 1

Abductor

Answer 1

Muscle that on contraction draws away from the middle

Question 2

Atonic

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Pertaining to any lack normal tone or tension the lack of normal muscle tone

Question 3

Atrophy

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Lack of nouishment

Question 4

Biceps

Answer 4

Muscle with two heads or point of origin

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Contraction

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Process of drawing up and thickening of a muscle fiber

Question 6

Contracture

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Condition in which a muscle shortens and renders the muscle resistant to the normal stretching process.

Question 7

Diaphragm

Answer 7

Partition of muscles and membranes that separate the chest cavity and the abdominal cavity

Question 8

Dystrophy

Answer 8

Any condition of abnormal development caused by defective nourishment

Question 9

Fascia

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Thin layer of connective tissue covering supporting or connecting the muscle or inner organs of the body

Question 10

Fasciitis

Answer 10

Inflammation of the fascia

Question 11

Intramuscular

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Pertaining to within the muscle such as an IM injection

Question 12

Isometric

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Literally means pertaining to having equal measures

Question 13

Muscular dystrophy

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Refers to a group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness degeneration of the skeletal or voluntary muscles that control movement

Question 14

Myalgia

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Pain in the muscle

Question 15

Myoblast

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Embryonic cell that develops into a cell muscle fiber

Question 16

Myograph & myopathy

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• instrument used to record muscle contractions

- muscle disease

Question 17

Myoplasty

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Surgical repair of a muscle

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Polyplegia

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Paralysis affecting many muscles

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Rheumatism

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General term used to describe conditions characterized by inflammation soreness and stiffness of muscle and pain in joints

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Rigor mortis

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Stiffness of skeletal muscles seen in death

; develops between the 4th and 24th hour after death then ceases

Question 21

Synergetic

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Pertaining to certain muscle that work together

Question 22

Tendon

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Band of fibrous connective tissue serving for the attachment of muscle to bone

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Torsion

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Process of being twisted

Question 24

Triceps

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Muscles having three heads with a single insertion

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Voluntary

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Under the control of ones will

Question 26

3 types of muscles

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• skeletal: produce various types of body movement through contra ciliary extensibility and elasticity
• smooth : produce contractions with greater degree of extensibility in the internal organs especially organs of the digestive respiratory and urinary track plus certain muscles of the eye and skin and walls of blood vessels
• cardiac