Muscles(Courtney has other half) Flashcards
How many bones do we have ?
206
How many muscles do we have ?
640
Where is the smallest muscle?
The middle ear
Where is the largest muscle?
Gluteus Maximus
What is the muscle that works to keep our moth closed?
Masseter
What is tetanus?
An illness that effects our masseter
Our masseter _____ in tetanus
Tightens
You can’t ____ your mouth when you have tetanus
Open
What are the three different kinds of muscles in our bodies?
Skeletal, smooth, cardiac
Skeletal muscles are also called ____ muscles
Voluntary
What is muscle tone?
Muscles are normally partiality contracted and always working
What do your tendons do?
Pull on Bone at a specific spot when muscles contract
Where is your Achilles’ tendon?
Back of your heel where your calf muscle attaches to your heel bone
Achilles’ tendon is named after _____ mythology
Greek
Essay-When Achilles was an infant, his mother _____ him in special ______ that supposedly protected his body from ______ however when she held him by the _____ and dumped him in his heel didn’t get ___
Dumped, water, harm, heel, wet
The heel was the only place where Achilles was _____
Vulnerable
Achilles is the ____ tendon
Strongest
If you over use tendons you get ____
Tendinitis
What are antagonist muscles?
While one contracts the other relaxes
Extensor muscles open joint ____
Wider
Flexor muscles _____ joint
Close
Explain flexor and extender essay_-
Biceps called for ur flexur by when the elbow bends it tightens, but the tricep/extensor muscle is weaker than your bicep back you use your bicep more when you lift things
What is atrophy?
When part of the body shrinks
Atrophy happens bc of _____ or ____ of use
Injury, lack
Muscles attach to our ____
Bones
Smooth muscles don’t have _____
Striations
Cardiac muscles have some atria goons but not as many as _____ muscles
Smooth
Name 4 places where your smooth muscles are found
Blood vessels, stomachs, intestines, bladder
Smooth muscles are ____
Involuntary
Involuntary muscles so their job on their ____
Own
