Universal Vocabulary - Sports Medicine

Muscles are ​ (a)   tissues. Many stretchy ​ (b)   make up your muscles. You have more than ​ (c)   muscles in your body.

• soft
• fibers
• 600

Match the following

• is a strong, flexible connective tissue that protects your joints and bones

• Joint

• a fibrous connective tissue that attaches bone to bone

• Tendon

• ___are soft tissues. Many stretchy fibers make up your ___ .

• Muscle

• is the part of the body where two or more bones meet to allow movement

• Cartilage

• are tissues that attaches a muscle to other body parts, usually bones.

• Ligament

Cartilage is a strong, flexible connective tissue that​ (a)   your joints and ​ (b)   . It acts as a ​ (c)   absorber throughout your body.

• protects
• bones
• shock
• Tendons
• Concussions

​ (a)   are made of connective tissue reinforced with ​ (b)   and specialized bone cells. Most bones also contain bone marrow, where ​ (c)   are made.

• Bones
• calcium
• blood cells

A ​ (a)   is the part of the body where ​ (b)   or more ​ (c)   meet to allow movement.

• joint
• two
• bones
• Tendons
• muscles
• spinal cord

A ​ (a)   is a fibrous connective tissue that attaches ​ (b)   to bone, and usually serves to hold structures together and keep them ​ (c)   .

• ligament
• bone
• stable
• muscle
• tendon
• loose

Match the following

• is a strong, flexible connective tissue that protects your joints and bones

• Ligament

• a fibrous connective tissue that attaches bone to bone

• Bone

• Bones are made of connective tissue reinforced with calcium and specialized __ cells

• Cartilage

• ___are soft tissues. Many stretchy fibers make up your ___ .

• Muscle

​ (a)   , are tissues that attaches a ​ (b)   to other body parts, usually ​ (c)   .

• Tendons
• muscle
• bones

You have more than ​ (a)   muscles in your body.

• 600
• 200
• 400
• 800

There are ​ (a)   bones in the human skeleton.

• 206
• 106
• 306
• 600