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muscle diseases/disorders & other term. Flashcards

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Quadriplegia

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The paralysis of all 4 extremities

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Spell the word that means extreme slowness in movement

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Bradykinesia

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pterygo

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wing shaped

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Deep Muscles

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Muscles visible by disection or imahing techniques

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Tenolysis

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To free a tendon from adhesions

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Spell the word that means hiccups

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S-i-n-g-u-l-t-u-s

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Semibranosus and Semitendiosus(part of hamstring group)

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felz knee, extend& rotate hip

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Fasciorrhapy

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Suturing of a lacerated fascia

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Hypertonia

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A condition of excessive tone of skeletal muscled to passive stretching

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Temporalis

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closes jaw

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Hemiplegia

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Total paralysis of one side of the body

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Gracilis

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Adducts thigh, flex and adduct leg

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Atrophy

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Weakness and wasting away caused by disuse of muscle over long period of time

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Myomalacia

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Abnormal softening of muscle tissue

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Dyskinesia

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Distortion or impairment of voluntary movement as in the tic spasm or myoclonus

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16
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Spell the condition that means that abnormal softening of muscle tissue

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m-y-o-m-a-l-a-c-i-a

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Myosclerosis

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Abnormal hardening of muscle tissue

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Hypokinesia

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Abnormal decreased motor function. Or activity

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All muscular movement is made by____ ______ that act on the tsissue causing a _____

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All muscular movement is made by nerve impulses that act on the tsissue causing a contraction

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Spell the word that means the surgical repair of a fascua

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F-a-s-c-I-o-plasty

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troph/o trophic

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food, nutrition

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Paraplegia

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The paralysis of both legs and the lower part of the body

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Hyperatrophy

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increase n muscle size

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Dystaxia

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Difficulty in controlling voluntary movement

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What muscle helps shrug our shoulders

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Trapezius

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sarc/o

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flesh

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Superficial Muscles

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Form surface landmarls, easily identifoed when viewing exposed skin

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Myorrhaphy

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To suture a muscle wound

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Infraspinatus

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Laterally rotates shoulder

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Sternohyoid

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depresses hyoid bone & larynx

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Myorrhexis

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rupture of a muscle

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Ataxia

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The inability to coordinate the muscles in the execution of voluntary movement

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Define Contracton

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Shortening of muscle fibers

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Fascioplasty

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Surgical repair of a fascia

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rhabd/o

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rod shapped

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pectoralis major

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pulls arm forward & across

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Myotonia

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The delayed relaxation of a muscle after a strong contraction

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Singultus

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Also known as hiccups

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Myonecrosis

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The death of individual muscle fibers

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Rhomboid major

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raise and adduct scapula

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Contracture

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Abnormal shortening of muscle tissues making the muscle resistant to stretching

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pter/o

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wing, feather

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Fasciectomy

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The surgical removal of a fascia

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Myocele

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The protrusion of a muscle through its ruptured sheath or fascia

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Myoclonus

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A spam or twitching of a muscle or group of muscles

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Hyperkinesia

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Abnormally increased motor function

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Muscle cells/fibers

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microscopic thread-like struvtures that contract to move muscles

48
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Spell the word that means the death of individual muscle fibers

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m-y-o-n-e-c-r-o-s-i-s

49
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Bradykinesia

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Extreme slowness in movement

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Tenodesis

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To suture at the end of a tendon or bone

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Myalgia

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Muscle tenderness or pain

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Hypotonia

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A condition of diminished tone of the skeletal muscled with decreased resistance of muscle to passive stretching

53
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-platy

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flat broad

54
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Spell the word that means abnormal decreased motor function or activty

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h-y-p-o-k-i-n-e-s-i-a

55
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WFL

WNL

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Within functional limits

within normal limits

56
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Pectoralis Minor

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Moves scapula against chest

57
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SITS stands for…

A

the muscles in your rotator cuff

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