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43 Cards in this Set
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What is the main muscle involved in breathing?
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Diaphragm
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This typre of muscle found in hollow structures like the intestines, arteries, veins, and the bladder is what muscle?
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Smooth Muscle
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The muscle of the buttocks where injections are administered, above and lateral to the gluteus maximus, is known as the?
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Gluteus Medius
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What attaches muscle to bone?
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Tendons
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What muscular dystrophy, is caused by the body's inability to make the protein dystrophin?
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Duchenne
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What is myasthenia gravis>
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Autoammune muscle disorder. Progressive weakness and Chronic fatigue in face and throat
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Who is affected by Duchennes muscular dystrophy more boys or girls?
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Boys
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What causes Muscular Dystrophy?
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Refers to a group of heretitary muscle diseases that weaken the muscles that move the body
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What kind of impact would a severe muscle injury have on the functioning of the kidneys?
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Negitive
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What muscle is found only in the heart and is contolled by the autonomic nervous system?
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Cardiac
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A Muscle injury is a strain and a ligament injury is usually a sprain?
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Strain and Sprain
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Movements of the ankle that change the position of the foot are known as?
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Dorsiflexion and Plantar flexion
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What is abduction?
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Moving a part away from the midline of the body
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If a prime mover causes extension, the antagonist would cause what?
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Flexion
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What are Twitch Contractions?
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Plays a minumual role in normal muscle activity.
Quick, Jerky response to a stimulus |
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Why does shivering help a person with hypothermia?
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Contraction of muscle fibers produces most of the heat required tomaintain body temperature
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Heavy breathing after strenuous exercise is an attempt by the body to do what?
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"Pay the debt" of oxygen required for the metabolic effort
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What helps maintain posture?
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Muscle Tone
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A Muscle can be a PRIME MOVER or an ANTAGONIST depending on the movement of the joint
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PRIME MOVER AND ANTAGONIST
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What is needed for a muscle to contract?
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Calcium and ATP
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What's another name for muscle fibers?
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Muscle Cells
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Tendons attach muscle to bone at both the ORIGIN and INSERTION sites
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Origin and Insertion
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Tendons sheath perform the same function as what?
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Bursae
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What do tendons attach?
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Muscle to bone
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When bending the elbow, where is the insertion at?
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Elbow
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Skeletal muscles are also called STRIATED or VOLUNTARY muscles
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Striated and voluntary
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What two muscles have striations?
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Skeletal and Cradiac
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Whay type of muscle has nonstriated muscle cells>
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Smooth muscles
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Diaphragm is the main muscle for what?
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Breathing
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What is myositis?
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Muscle Tissue inflammation
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What is myalgia?
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Muscle Pain
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What is tendonitis?
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Inflammation of Tendon
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Shaking your head "no" is this type of movement?
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Rotation
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What is the oppposire of extension
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Flexion
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If the muscles of a weightlifter and a marathon runner were compared, the weightlifer would have what?
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Larger Muscles
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If the muscles of a weightlifter and a marathon runner were compared, the marathon runner would have what?
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Increased number of mitochondria in each muscle cell
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Strength training, and a increase in muscle size is what?
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Hypertrophy
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An increase in blood vessels to a muscle is what kind of training?
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Indurance
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Lifting a 500-pound weight would be what type of muscle contraction?
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Isometric
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Lifting a book, what type of muscle contraction?
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Isotonic
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During strenuous ecercise what can happen?
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Oxygen debt can occur and lactic acid can be created in muscle
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Tonic contractions help maintain what?
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Posture
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Another name for smooth muscle is?
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Visceral
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