muscular diseases and disorders

Question 1

cramps

Answer 1

painfule, spactic contractions of skeletal mucle; due to multiple causes such as dehydration and ion imbalance

Question 2

fibromyalgia

Answer 2

non-life threatning, chronic, widspread pain in skeleta; muscles with no known cure; also known as chronic mucle pain syndorm

Question 3

Hypertrophy

Answer 3

enlargemtn of skeletal muscle size due to an increased number of myofibrils, as ocurs wuth uncreased muscle use; un cardiac muscle, usuallt a result of other diseases, commonly hypertension

Question 4

atrophy

Answer 4

decrease in muscle size due to a decreased number of myofilaments; can occur due to disuse of a muscle, as in paralysis; can also occurs in cardiac muscle due to certain pathologies such as chronic heart failure

Question 5

myasthenia gravis

Answer 5

v

Question 6

tendonitis

Answer 6

inflammatio of a tendon or its attachment pooint due to overuse of a skeletal muscle

Question 7

fibrosis

Answer 7

scarrin of damaged cardiac or skeletal muscle die to depostion of ct

Question 8

fibrositis

Answer 8

inflmmation of fibrous ct, resulting in soreness after prolonged skeltal mucle tnetion;; not prgressive