Muscular System Flashcards
-cele
Hernia, tumor, swelling
Bi-
Twice, double, two
Dys-
Bad, difficult, painful
Fasci/o
Fascia, fibrous band
Fibr/o
Fibrous tissue, fiber
-ia
Abnormal condition, disease
-ic
Pertaining to
Kines/o, kinesi/o
Movement
My/o
Muscle
-plegia
Paralysis, stroke
-rrhexis
Rupture
Tax/o
Coordination, order
Ten/o, tend/o, tendin/o
Tendon, stretch out, extend, strain
Ton/o
Tone, stretching, tension
Tri-
Three
Functions of muscle
Hold body erect & make movement possible. Move food through digestive system, generates 85% heat
Muscle fibers
Long, slender cells that make up muscles
Fascia
Band of connective tissue that envelops, seperates & binds together muscles
Myofascial
Pertaining to muscle tissue
Tendon
Narrow band of non elastic dense connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone
3 types of muscle tissue:
Skeletal, smooth, myocardial
Skeletal muscles
Attached to bones of skeleton/ make motions possible. Also known as striated & voluntary muscles.
Smooth muscles
Located in walls of internal organs. Also known as involuntary, unstriated and visceral muscles.
Myocardial muscles
Muscular walls of the heart
Muscle intervention
Stimulation of muscle by impulse transmitted by a motor nerve
Neuromuscular
Pertaining to relationship between a nerve and muscle
Abduction
Movement of a limb away from the midline of the body
Adduction
Movement of a limb toward the midline of the body
Flexion
Decreasing angle between two bones by bending a limb at a joint.
Depression
Act of lowering a body part
Circumduction
Circular movement at the far end of a limb
Rotator muscle
Turns a body part on it’s axis
Rotator cuff
Group of muscles and their tendons that hold the head of humerus securely in place
Supination
Act of rotating arm or leg
Dorsiflexion
Movement that bends the foot upward at the ankle
