Muscular system
Across
- 3. any of the muscles that increase the angle between members of a limb, as by straightening the elbow or knee or bending the wrist or spine backward
- 5. Movement away from the middle of the body.
- 8. The hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood through the body of a vertebrate animal by contracting and relaxing
- 9. Having to do with the skeleton (bones of the body).
- 10. the movement of a limb or other part toward the midline of the body or toward another part
- 13. the point where a muscle attaches to the moveable bone in the joint.
- 14. a body tissue consisting of long cells that can contract and produce motion
- 15. the areas where two or more bones meet
Down
- 1. a body tissue consisting of long cells that can contract and produce motion
- 2. the tightening, shortening, or lengthening of muscles when you do some activity
- 4. an organ system consisting of skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle
- 6. in your shoulder, which is the ball-and-socket joint that connects your arm to the trunk of your body
- 7. is a fibrous connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone
- 9. a long, narrow muscle running obliquely across the front of each thigh from the hipbone to the inside of the leg below the knee
- 11. an attachment site that connects the muscle to a bone.
- 12. the most superficial muscle on the medial side of the thigh