Skeletal Vocab 2

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