Muscular System

Question 1

Skeletal muscles are under

Answer 1

Voluntary control

Question 2

Supination is the

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Turning of the arm so that the palm faces upwards

Question 3

A tendon is a band of

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Nonelastic, fibrous connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone

Question 4

Tendoesis is the surgical suturing of a

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Tendon to a bone

Question 5

Myocardial is the

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Heart muscle

Question 6

Gluteus maximum is the

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Buttock muscle

Question 7

A tendon is a

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Fibrous connective tissue

Question 8

A deltoid is the

Answer 8

Muscular cap of a shoulder

Question 9

A sphincter is a

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Ring-like muscle

Question 10

The movement of ankles and knee joints is called

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Flexion

Question 11

A hamstring is an injury that

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Be a strain / tear on any of the 3 muscles that straighten the hip and bend the knee

Question 12

A drug that causes temporary paralysis is called a

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Neuromuscluar blocker

Question 13

Singultus is

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Hiccups

Question 14

A ganglion is a

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Harmless cyst that forms outside the wrist

Question 15

Pronation is the movement that

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Turns the arm and presses the palm downwards / backwards

Question 16

Myorrhexis is the

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Rupture of the muscle

Question 17

Hyperkinesia is the

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Abnormal increase of muscle function and activity

Question 18

Torticollis is

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Stiff neck / wryneck

Question 19

Sarcopenia is

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Muscle degradation that comes with aging

Question 20

Hypotonia is

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Diminished tone of skeletal muscles

Question 21

Adduction is the

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Arm moving inward and towards the body