Muscular System Terminology

Question 1

my/o

Answer 1

muscle

Question 2

myos/o

Answer 2

muscle

Question 3

radi/o

Answer 3

nerve root

Question 4

sarc/o

Answer 4

flesh, connective tissue

Question 5

ten/o or tedin/o or tend/o

Answer 5

tendon

Question 6

-asthenia

Answer 6

weakness

Question 7

-centesis

Answer 7

surgical puncture to aspirate fluid

Question 8

Antagonistic

Answer 8

opposition to each other

Question 9

Bradykinesia

Answer 9

Condition of slow movement

Question 10

Dyskinesia

Answer 10

Abnormal involuntary movements of the extremities, trunk, or jaw

Question 11

Hemiplegia

Answer 11

Paralysis on one side of the body

Question 12

Hyperkinesia

Answer 12

Excessive movement of muscles of the body as a whole

Question 13

Hypertrophy

Answer 13

enlargement of muscles

Question 14

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Answer 14

procedure in which radio waves and a powerful magnet linked to a computer are used to create detailed pictures of areas inside the body

Question 15

Muscular dystrophy

Answer 15

group of inherited myopathies that are characterized by wasting and weakness of the skeletal muscle

Question 16

Myeloma

Answer 16

Cancer that arises in plasma cells.

Question 17

Paraplegia

Answer 17

Paralysis that affects both legs and lower part of the body

Question 18

Paresis

Answer 18

Partial paralysis wherein there is still some control of the muscles

Question 19

Polymyositis

Answer 19

inflammatory disease of the muscles closest to the center of the body

Question 20

Quadriplegia

Answer 20

Paralysis of all four limbs.

Question 21

Rhabdomyolysis

Answer 21

Necrosis or disintegration of skeletal muscle