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Muscular Systemm
Question | Answer |
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Abduction | moving a body part away from the midline. |
Adduction | moving a body part toward the midline. |
Cardiac Muscle | Forms the walls of the heart and contracts to circulate blood. |
Circumduction | Moving in a circle at a joint,or moving one end of a body part in a cicle while the othrt end remains stationary, such as swinging and in a circle. |
Contract | To shorten,decrease in size,or draw together;an agreement between two or more person. |
Contractibility | muscle fibers that are stimulated by nerves contract,or become short and thick,which cause movement. |
Contracture | Tighting or shortening of a muscle. |
Elasticity | allows the muscle to return to its original shape after it has contracted or stretched. |
Excitability | irritability, the ability to respond to stimulus such as a nerve impulse. |
Extension | increasing the angle between two bones,or straightening a body part. |
Fascia | fibrous membrane covering, supporting, and seperating muscles |
Insertion | End or area of a muscle that moves when the muscle contracts. |
involuntary | independent action not controlled by choice or desire. |
Muscle tone | state of partial muscle contraction providing a state of re |