The muscular System

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Across
  1. 1. widespread disorder, characterized by musculoskeletal pain and fatigue
  2. 3. removal by suction of fluid from within a cyst
  3. 6. the loss of muscle mass and strength that occurs with the disuse of muscle over a long period of time.
  4. 7. pulls the corners of the mouth
  5. 9. Pulls the head from side to side and to the chest
  6. 10. Raises the eyebrows
  7. 13. A muscle that acts with another muscle, most often a prime mover, to produce movement
  8. 15. separates the thoracic cavity from the abdominal cavity: its contraction causes the process of inspiration
  9. 17. Meaning without oxygen, uses glucose to make ATP
  10. 18. Sometimes called voluntary or striated muscle, can perform skeletal movement because it is attached to the bones of the body
  11. 19. Meaning with oxygen
  12. 20. Involuntary muscle, composed of elongated, spindle-shaped cells.
  13. 21. Body's ability to maintain posture through continual partial contraction of skeletal muscles.
  14. 23. often fatal, caused by the bacteria clostridium tetani which usually enters the body through a puncture, cut or open wound.
  15. 25. major pulls the arm across the chest and also rotates and adducts the arms
  16. 26. A muscle that counteracts, or opposes, the action of another muscle
Down
  1. 2. Chronic autoimmune disease characterized by varying degrees of weakness of the skeletal or voluntary muscles of the body.
  2. 4. found in the heart
  3. 5. Disease Caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium, carried by ticks.
  4. 8. an injury to either a muscle or tendon
  5. 9. stretching or tearing to a ligament
  6. 11. Muscles produce this through the chemical changes involved in muscular contraction
  7. 12. Extends the thigh
  8. 14. raises the arms and pulls the shoulders downward
  9. 16. Provides for abduction and extension of the arm at the shoulder
  10. 22. The band of connective tissue found at each end of a muscle that attaches the muscle to a bone
  11. 24. Meaning striped in appearance