Across
- 5. Smallest, between the anterior and inferior gluteal lines, and behind, from the margin of the greater sciatic notch.
- 7. Motion that pulls a structure or part away from the midline of the body.
- 8. Motion that pulls a structure or part toward the midline of the body
- 9. Attachment, while the insertion moves with contraction.
- 10. Forearm that turns palms to face anteriorly or upward
- 12. Attachment site that does move when the muscle contracts.
- 14. Cell membrane that encloses each muscle cell.
- 17. Muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will.
- 19. Junction Junction between nerve and muscle
- 20. Chemical messenger, a neurotransmitter, released by nerve cells in many parts of the peripheral nervous system.
- 24. maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice and which relaxes as required by normal physiological functioning.
- 27. A muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels
- 29. Bending movement that decreases the angle between a segment and its proximal segment.
- 30. Combining form meaning muscle.
- 32. Forearm movement that turns palm to face either posteriorly or downward
- 34. Fifth tendon and is part of the extensor digitorum longus.
- 36. A flexible but inelastic cord of strong fibrous collagen tissue attaching a muscle to a bone.
Down
- 1. Debt extra oxygen that must be used in the oxidative energy processes after a period of strenuous exercise to reconvert lactic acid to glucose and decomposed ATP and creatine phosphate to their original states.
- 2. A straightening movement that increases the angle between body parts
- 3. Broad, thick, radiating muscle, situated on the outer surface of the pelvis.
- 4. unit Neuron and the skeletal muscle fibers innervated by that motor neuron's axonal terminals.
- 5. Largest and most superficial of the three gluteal muscles. It makes up a large portion of the shape and appearance of the hips.
- 6. Tone The internal state of muscle-fiber tension within individual muscles and muscle groups.
- 8. A sheet of pearly-white fibrous tissue that takes the place of a tendon in sheetlike muscles having a wide area of attachment.
- 11. The activation of tension-generating sites within muscle fibers
- 13. Muscles can be stretched to their normal resting length and beyond to a limited degree.
- 15. Movement Muscle that provides the major force to complete the movement.
- 16. A muscle whose contraction pulls down the part of the body to which it is attached.
- 18. Adduct the thigh and it is innervated by the obturator nerve.
- 21. A muscle whose contraction causes the raising of a part of the body.
- 22. Fixed attachment, while the insertion moves with contraction.
- 23. The ability of a muscle fiber to respond rapidly to a stimulating agent.
- 25. The ability of a muscle to rebound toward its original length after a contraction.
- 26. Combining form meaning muscle.
- 28. As one muscle contracts, the other relaxes.
- 31. Pulls the thigh medially.
- 33. Departures from the standard position of the body, the anatomical position.
- 35. Combining form meaning flesh.