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1
Q

How many bones do we have ?

A

206

2
Q

How many muscles do we have ?

A

640

3
Q

Where is the smallest muscle?

A

The middle ear

4
Q

Where is the largest muscle?

A

Gluteus Maximus

5
Q

What is the muscle that works to keep our moth closed?

A

Masseter

6
Q

What is tetanus?

A

An illness that effects our masseter

7
Q

Our masseter _____ in tetanus

A

Tightens

8
Q

You can’t ____ your mouth when you have tetanus

A

Open

9
Q

What are the three different kinds of muscles in our bodies?

A

Skeletal, smooth, cardiac

10
Q

Skeletal muscles are also called ____ muscles

A

Voluntary

11
Q

What is muscle tone?

A

Muscles are normally partiality contracted and always working

12
Q

What do your tendons do?

A

Pull on Bone at a specific spot when muscles contract

13
Q

Where is your Achilles’ tendon?

A

Back of your heel where your calf muscle attaches to your heel bone

14
Q

Achilles’ tendon is named after _____ mythology

A

Greek

15
Q

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 ___

A

Dumped, water, harm, heel, wet

16
Q

The heel was the only place where Achilles was _____

A

Vulnerable

17
Q

Achilles is the ____ tendon

A

Strongest

18
Q

If you over use tendons you get ____

A

Tendinitis

19
Q

What are antagonist muscles?

A

While one contracts the other relaxes

20
Q

Extensor muscles open joint ____

A

Wider

21
Q

Flexor muscles _____ joint

A

Close

22
Q

Explain flexor and extender essay_-

A

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

23
Q

What is atrophy?

A

When part of the body shrinks

24
Q

Atrophy happens bc of _____ or ____ of use

A

Injury, lack

25
Q

Muscles attach to our ____

A

Bones

26
Q

Smooth muscles don’t have _____

A

Striations

27
Q

Cardiac muscles have some atria goons but not as many as _____ muscles

A

Smooth

28
Q

Name 4 places where your smooth muscles are found

A

Blood vessels, stomachs, intestines, bladder

29
Q

Smooth muscles are ____

A

Involuntary

30
Q

Involuntary muscles so their job on their ____

A

Own