Muscular System
Across
- 5. the ability to shorten
- 7. moving the body part around its axis
- 10. bending a joint to decrease the angle between two bones or body parts
- 13. bending of the foot causing the toes to point upward
- 14. turning the palm of the hand downward
- 16. turning the foot inward
- 19. tension is increased but the muscle does not shorten
- 20. study of movement
- 21. to release an object by spreading the fingers and thumb
- 24. turning the palm of the hand upward
- 25. a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue that surround muscles, vessels, and nerve
- 27. voluntary/striated muscle
- 29. the ability to be stretched
- 30. raises or elevates a body part
Down
- 1. pear-shaped
- 2. the ability to receive and respond to stimulus
- 3. makes a body part rigid
- 4. flat
- 6. a motion involving a grasping motion of the thumb and fingers
- 8. inflamed tendon after injury
- 9. slender
- 11. straightening a joint to increase the angle between 2 bones or body parts
- 12. turning the foot outward
- 15. circular
- 17. saw-toothed
- 18. the muscle shortens
- 22. huge
- 23. the ability to resume normal length after contraction or having been stretched
- 26. involuntary/visceral muscle
- 28. found only in the heart