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Muscular Vocab 3G
Muscular System Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Visceral Muscle | Contracts to cause movement in these organs. |
Excitability | Irritability, the ability to respond to a stimulus such as a nerve impulse. |
Flexion | Decreasing the angle between two bones bending a body part. |
Insertion | End or area of a muscle hat moves when the muscle contracts. |
Fascia | Fibrous membrane covering, supporting, and separarting muscles. |
Origin | End or area of a muscle that remains stationary when the muscle contracts. |
Tendons | Fibrous connective tissue tha connects muscles to bones. |
Cardiac Muscle | Forms the walls of the heart and contracts to circulate blood. |
Skeletal Muscle | Attached to bones and causes body movement. |
Extension | Increasing the ange between two bones, or straightening a body part. |
Contract | To shorten, decrease in size, or to draw together. |
Elasticity | Allows the muscle to return to its original shape after it has contracted or stretched. |
Circumduction | Moving in a circle at a joint, or moving one end of a body part in a circle while the other remains stationary, such as swinging arm in a circle. |
Adduction | Moving a body part toward the midline. |
Abduction | Moving a body art aay from the midline. |
Rotation | Turning a body part arond its own axis; for example, turning the head from side to side. |
Muscle Tone | State of partial muscle contraction providing a state of readiness to react. |
Contracture | Tightening or shortening of a muscle. |