Muscular System Quiz

The muscular system is made up of over _____ muscles

• 1000

• 500

• 600

• 800

Muscles are _______ which means they are capable of contracting or shortening

• irritable

• contractible

• extensible

____________ means a muscle can be stretched without damage by the application of force.

• excitable

• extensible

• contractible

Hypertrophy means the ________ of the muscle.

• wasting away

• enlarging

• shortening

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Atrophy means the ______ _________ of muscle

• making larger

• making shorter

• wasting away

____________ - moving a body part towards the mid-line of the body.

• rotation

• abduction

• adduction

• flexion

_____________ - moving a body part away from the body.

• rotation

• adduction

• flexion

• abduction

____________ - bending a joint to decrease the angle between two bones or two body parts

• rotation

• abduction

• flexion

• adduction

____________ - straightening and extending of the joint to increase the angle.

• adduction

• extension

• flexion

• rotation

____________ - involves moving a body part around an axis.

• extension

• rotation

• flexion

• adduction