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Muscle Related Clinical Terms
Fibromyositis or fibromyalgia (fibro = fiber; itis = inflammation) |
A group of conditions involving chronic inflammation of a muscle, its connective tissue coverings and tendons, and capsules of nearby joints.
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What are the symptoms of fibromyositis or fibromyalgia?
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Symptoms are nonspecfic and involve varying degrees of tenderness associated with specific trigger points, as well as fatigue and frequent awakening from sleep.
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Muscle Related Clinical Terms
Hernia |
Protrusion of an organ through its body cavity wall
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What are the causes of a hernia?
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May be congential (owing to failure of muscle fusion during development), but most often is caused by heavy lifting or obseity and subsequent muscle weakening.
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Muscle Related Clinical Terms
Myalgia (mahy-al-jee-uh; algia = pain) |
Muscle pain rsulting from any muscle disorder
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Myofascial pain syndrome |
Pain caused by a tightened band of muscles fibers, which twitch when the skin over them is touched. Mostly associated with overused or strained postural muscles.
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Myopathy (mahy-op-uh-thee; path = disease, suffering) |
Any disease of the muscle
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Myotonic dystrophy |
A less common form of muscular dystrophy that is a chronic, slowly progressing, inherited disease symptoms thta include a gradual reduction in muscle mass and control of skeletal muscles. abnormal heart rhythm, and diabetes mellitus. May appear at any time. Non-sex related.
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Muscle Related Clinical Terms
RICE |
R - rest
I - ice C - compression E - Elevation The standard treatment for a pulled muscle, or extcessively stretched tendons or liagmetns |
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Strain |
Commonly called a "pulled muscle" A strain is xcessive stretching and possible tearng of a muscle due to muscle overuse or abuse
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Muscle Related Terms
Spase |
A sudden involuntary twitch in smooth and skeletal ranging from irritating to very painful
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Tetanus |
1. A state of sustained contraction of a muscle that is a normal aspect of skeletal muscle functioning
2. An acute infectious disese caused by anacrobic bacterium Clostridium tetani and resuling in persistent painful spasms of some of the skeletal muscles. Death could occur related to respiratory failure as evidneced by locked jaw or muscle spasms of the trunck and limbs muscles |
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Name the 3 types of muscle tissue
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1. Skeletal
2. Cardiac 3. Smooth |
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Elongated skeletal and smooth muscle cells are called
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muscle fibers
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myo or mys
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Are word rioots meaning muscle
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sarco
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means flesh inreference to muscle
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sarcolemma
(sahr-kuh-lem-uh |
muscle (sarco) husk (lemma)
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sarcoplasm
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muscle cell cytoplasm
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