Health Vocabulary

1. Motor function as a result of brain damage
3. Strong cords of tissue that connect bones at the joints, holds the bones in place
6. Located in your stomach and intestines; your digestive system is an example
9. Found in the walls of your heart; pumps blood in your entire body
11. Tough, flexible tissue; acts as a cushion between bones at a joint
13. Break in a bone
14. Limited rotation (side to side); neck and head
15. Enables bones to slide over one another; wrist and ankles
16. Curve of a spine
17. Provide framework to the body
18. Swelling and stiffness of joints
21. Moves only in one direction; elbows and knees

2. Allows you to move; attached to bones; makes up about 40% of your body weight
4. Bone pushed out of a joint
5. Inherited disorder, weakening of skeletal muscles
7. Moves in all directions; hips and shoulders
8. Treatment for a strained/pulled muscle
10. Bones become brittle and porous
12. Bacterial infection of the bone
19. Attach the muscles to the bones
20. Stretching or tearing of a ligament