Flashcards in Test Deck (35)
Loading flashcards...
0
Ability to respond to a stimulus
Excitability
1
Ability to be stretched
Extensibility
2
Ability to become short and thick
Contrability
3
Ability to return to its original shape
Elasticity
4
Can control
Voluntary
5
Cannot control
Involuntary
6
Forms walls of the heart and contracts to circulate blood
Cardiac
7
Found in internal organs blood vessels and eyes
Visceral/smooth
8
Attached to bones and causes movement.
Skeletal
9
Functions of skeletal muscles
Attaches to bones to provide voluntary movement
Produces heart and energy for the body
Helps maintain posture
Protects internal organs
10
Ways skeletal muscles attach to bone
Tendons
Fascia a tough sheet like membrane that covers and protects the tissue
11
Muscle tone
A state of partial contraction
12
What occurs when muscles atrophy? What causes muscles to atrophy
Shrink n muscles not being used for a long time and illness
13
What is a contracture
A serve tightening of a flexor muscle resulting in bending of a joint
14
Joints affected by contractures
Fingers wrist knees and other joint
15
Muscle of upper arm that flexes lower arm
Biceps brachii
16
Cramps, are sudden painful involuntary movement
Muscle spasm
17
a group of inherited disease that lead to chronic progressive muscle atrophy
Muscular dystrophy
18
A chronic condition where nerve impulses are not properly transmitted to muscles
Myasthenia gravies
19
An overstretching of injury to a muscle or tendon
Strain
20
A chronic widespread pain in specific muscle sites. Treatment is directed toward pain relief and muscle relaxation
Fibromyalgia
21
Moves the arm away from the body
Abduction
22
Moves the arm toward the body
Adduction
23
Increases the angle of the elbow and moves the hand away from the body
Extension
24
Decreases the angle of the elbow and moves the hand toward the body
Flexion
25
A circular movement around an axis such as the shoulder joint
Rotation
26
Circular movement at the far end of a limb
Circumduction
27
The act of rotating the arm or the leg so that the palm of the hand sole of the foot is turned forward or upward
Supination
28
The act of rotating the arm or leg so that the palm of the hand or sole of the foot is turned downward or backward
Pronation
29
