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Across
- 2. When an organ protrudes through a weak muscle.
- 5. Muscles: Special circular muscles in openings between the esophagus and stomach.
- 9. Muscles: Cells are small and spindle-shaped.
- 15. Help steady a movement or stabilize joint activity
- 17. Muscles: Only found in the heart.
- 18. Muscles: Attached to the bones of the skeleton.
- 19. Retraining of injured or unused muscles.
- 22. The ability to return to original length when relaxing.
Down
- 1. Fatigue: An accumulation of lactic acid in the muscles.
- 3. Muscles that are shrinked.
- 4. Reduces the distance between parts and its contents, or space it surrounds
- 6. When tension in a muscle increases but the muscle does not shorten.
- 7. A general sense of comfort and well-being to a patient.
- 8. The ability to respond to certain stimuli.
- 10. Sustained contraction of the muscle.
- 11. Unit: A motor unit plus all the skeletal muscle fibers it simulates.
- 12. Goes the opposite direction.
- 13. Capacity to do work, increased by proper training.
- 14. Gravis: Grave muscle weakness
- 16. Part that moves most during a muscle contraction.
- 20. Muscle pain.
- 21. Central body of muscles.