Muscular System #3

Question 1

What is an attachment site that does not move?

Answer 1

Origin

Question 2

What is an attachment site that does move?

Answer 2

Insertion

Question 3

What is the name of the muscle that is responsible for most of the movement?

Answer 3

Prime mover/ agonist

Question 4

What is the name of the muscles that helps the prime mover by stabilizing joints?

Answer 4

Synergist

Question 5

What produces movement opposite to the prime mover?

Answer 5

Antagonist

Question 6

What is the anatomical term that means wasting away of a muscle?

Answer 6

Atrophy

Question 7

What motion describes bending a body part so that the angle is decreased?

Answer 7

Flexion

Question 8

What motion describes straightening a body part so that angle is increased?

Answer 8

Extension

Question 9

What movement describes turning the foot and ankle inward?

Answer 9

Inversion

Question 10

What movement describes turning the foot and ankle outward?

Answer 10

Eversion

Question 11

What movement describes turning the palm of the hand downward?

Answer 11

Pronation

Question 12

What movement describes turning the palm of the hand upward?

Answer 12

Supination

Question 13

What muscle pulls the head to one side?

Answer 13

Sternocleidomastoid

Question 14

What muscles raise the eyebrows?

Answer 14

Frontalis

Question 15

What muscle abducts and extends the arm at the shoulder?

Answer 15

Deltoid

Question 16

What muscle flexes the arm at the elbow?

Answer 16

Biceps brachill

Question 17

What muscle extends the arm at the elbow?

Answer 17

Triceps brachili

Question 18

What muscles pull the arm across the chest?

Answer 18

Pectoralis major

Question 19

What muscle flexes and abducts the wrist?

Answer 19

Flexor carpi radials/ulnaris

Question 20

What muscle extends the wrist?

Answer 20

Extensor carpi ulnaris

Question 21

What anatomical structure separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity?

Answer 21

Diaphragm

Question 22

What muscle extends the finger but not the thumb?

Answer 22

Extensor digitorum

Question 23

What muscle expands and lowers the ribs during breathing?

Answer 23

External and internal intercoastals

Question 24

What muscle compresses the abdominal wall?

Answer 24

External/Internal obliques

Question 25

What muscle flexes the thigh?

Answer 25

Psoas major and iliacus

Question 26

What muscle extends the thigh?

Answer 26

Gluteus maximus

Question 27

What muscles adduct the thigh?

Answer 27

Adducter longus and magnus

Question 28

What muscle flexes the leg at the knee and extends the leg at the hip?

Answer 28

BIceps femoris, Semitendi

Question 29

What extends the leg at the knee?

Answer 29

Quadriceps

Question 30

What muscle flexes the foot and flexes the leg at the knee?

Answer 30

Gastrocnemius

Question 31

What term describes injuries due to over-stretched muscles or tendons?

Answer 31

Strains

Question 32

What term describes injuries that result in tears to tendons, ligaments, and/or cartilage of joint?

Answer 32

Sprains

Question 33

What disorder affects the gastrointestinal tract and various muscle groups - is a rare and potentially fatal illness caused by a toxin?

Answer 33

Botulism

Question 34

What is the name of the disorder that is a fairly common condition that causes chronic pain primarily in joints, muscles, and tendons?

Answer 34

Fibromyalagia

Question 35

What is an inherited disorder characterized by muscle weakness and a loss of muscle tissue?

Answer 35

Muscular dystrophy

Question 36

What is a painful inflammation of a tendon and the tendon-muscle attachment to a bone?

Answer 36

Myasthenia gravis

Question 37

What does the acronym RICE mean?

Answer 37

Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevating, (Prevention)

Question 38

How long should someone leave ice on an injury?

Answer 38

15-30mins

Question 39

After an acute injury, how many hours can a person use ice and it still be effective?

Answer 39

24-72 hours

Question 40

List the three things that can help prevent strains and sprains:

Answer 40

1. Warm up muscles 2. Stretching 3. Cooling down

Question 41

Hypertrophy

Answer 41

Enlargement of the ................

Question 42

Dorsiflexion

Answer 42

Pointing the toes up

Question 43

Splenius Capitis

Answer 43

Rotates the head, allows it to bend to the side