Personal Fitness A

4. Any of the muscular-walled tube forming part of the circulation system by which blood (mainly that which has been oxygenated) is conveyed from the heart to all parts of the body.
5. The action of bending or the condition of being bent, especially the bending of a limb or joint.
9. A pair of breathing organs located with the chest which remove carbon dioxide from and bring oxygen to the blood.
10. A dome-shaped muscular partition separating the thorax from the abdomen.
14. The ability not to be affected by something, especially adversely.
16. In a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced.
17. Occurs when the supply of blood to the brain is either interrupted or reduced.
20. The forceful extension of a limb or joint beyond its normal limits, either in exercise or therapy or so as to cause injury.
21. A part that is added to something to enlarge or prolong it; a continuation.
22. The measurable amount of a property. Such as force, brightness, or a magnetic field.
23. Any of five tendons at the back of a person’s knee.
25. The red liquid that circulates from the heart to the rest of the body, carrying oxygen and carbon dioxide.

1. A hollow muscular organ that pumps blood through the body.
2. The force attracts a body towards the center of the earth, or towards any other physical body having mass.
3. The colorless fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk, in which corpuscles or fat globules are suspended.
6. A short band of tough, flexible fibrous connective tissue which connects two bones or cartilages or holds together a joint.
7. Any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood toward the heart.
8. A compound of the sterol type found in most body tissues.
11. The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another.
12. The rate at which something occurs or is repeated over a particular period of time or in a given sample.
13. A disease of the arteries characterized by the deposition of plaque of fatty material on their inner walls.
15. Abnormally high blood pressure.
18. The state or quality of being efficient.
19. A violent shock as from a heavy blow.
24. A flexible but inelastic cord of strong fibrous collagen tissue attaching a muscle to a bone.