Muscular System Med Term

Tendons attach...

• Bone to bone
• muscle to muscle
• muscle to bone

Muscles returning to their original form

• relaxation
• contraction
• dorsiflexion

Moving a body part toward the midline of body 

• Abduction
• Adduction
• flexion

Moving a body part away from the midline of body 

• Abduction
• Adduction
• contraction

Decreasing the joint of an angle

• Extension
• Flexion
• Tenodesis

Increasing the angle of a joint

• Extension
• Flexion
• Relaxation

Ankle movement where the toes come toward the knee

• plantarflexion
• dorsiflexion
• Adduction

Ankle movement where the toes are pointed. 

• Dorsiflexion
• Plantarflexion
• Hyperextension

Myalgia

• Muscle pain
• Muscle inflammation
• Muscle bleeding

Inflammation in multiple muscles

• Polymyalgia
• Polymyositis
• Unimyectomy