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Adductor

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Muscle the draws a part toward the middle

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Abductor

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Muscle that on contraction draws away from the middle

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Atonic

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

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Atrophy

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Lack of nouishment

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Biceps

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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

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Contracture

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

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Diaphragm

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

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Dystrophy

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Any condition of abnormal development caused by defective nourishment

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Fascia

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

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Fasciitis

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Inflammation of the fascia

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Intramuscular

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Pertaining to within the muscle such as an IM injection

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Isometric

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Literally means pertaining to having equal measures

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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

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Myalgia

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Pain in the muscle

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Myoblast

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Embryonic cell that develops into a cell muscle fiber

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Myograph & myopathy

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  • instrument used to record muscle contractions

- muscle disease

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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

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Synergetic

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Pertaining to certain muscle that work together

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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

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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

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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