Across
- 3. Softening of muscle tissue
- 5. Pertaining to both nerves and muscles
- 10. Muscular motion or activity
- 13. Muscle having three heads with a single insertion
- 15. Pain in the muscle
- 16. General term used to describe conditions characterized by inflammation, soreness, and stiffness of muscles and pain in joints
- 17. Weakness or slight paralysis of a muscle
- 18. Condition characterized by cramps, convulsions, twitching of the muscles, and sharp flexion of the wrist and ankle joints
- 19. Muscle that raises or elevates a part
- 21. Inflammation of muscle tissue, especially skeletal muscles; may be caused by infection, trauma, or parasitic infestation
- 25. Process of being twisted
- 26. Muscle arising from the sternum and clavicle with its insertion in the mastoid process; flexes the neck and helps with movement of the head
Down
- 1. Muscle that has four heads or points of origin
- 2. Lacking muscle tone; weak, soft, flabby
- 4. Band of fibrous connective tissue serving for the attachment of muscles to bones
- 6. Stiffness of skeletal muscles seen in death; develops between the 4th and 24th hour after death, then ceases
- 7. Pertaining to tone, especially muscular tension
- 8. Pertaining to having the same tone or tension
- 9. Refers to a group of genetic diseases characterized by progressive weakness and degeneration of the skeletal or voluntary muscles that control movement.
- 11. Condition of increased muscular tone causing stiff and awkward movements
- 12. Treatment using scientific application of water; types: hot tub, cold bath, whirlpool, and vapor bath
- 14. Artificial device used to replace an organ or body part, such as a hand, arm, leg, or hip.
- 20. Abnormal condition of hardening of muscle
- 21. Instrument used to record muscular contractions
- 22. Pertaining to within a muscle, such as an IM injection
- 23. Embryonic cell that develops into a cell of muscle fiber
- 24. Literally means pertaining to having equal measure; increasing tension of muscle while maintaining equal length