Muscular System Crossword
Across
- 2. Starts at the base of your neck, goes across your shoulders and extends to the middle of your back
- 4. Involuntary muscle contractions and overly stimulated peripheral nerves
- 5. An impairing disorder that resulted in the delayed relaxation of skeletal muscles after voluntary contraction
- 7. Any disorder that affects the heart muscle
- 9. Occurs when damaged muscle tissue releases its proteins and electrolytes into the blood
Down
- 1. An increase in muscle mass that is achieved through exercises like resistance training
- 3. Each of a pair of long muscles that connect the sternum, clavicle, and mastoid process of the temporal bone and serve to turn and nod the head
- 6. An age related, involuntary loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength
- 8. Abbreviation for a fatal motor neuron disease characterized by progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain
- 10. A flat, thin muscle in the wall of the cheek