The Muscular System- Part I

A term referring to the muscle is called ____________

One of the elongated contractile cells of muscle tissue is ______

The movement away from the midline of the body

• abduction

• adduction

_______ is the movement toward the median plane of the body

The process by which a muscle is made shorter and tighter

• contraction

• relaxtion

• flexion

• extension

The stretching or straightening out of a joint

• flexion

• relaxtion

• Extension

• contraction

The patient with cerebral palsy was described as having ataxia. This means that the patient:

• has muscle spasms when he attempts movement

• has slow skeletal muscle movements of his upper extremities

• walks with uncoordinated manner

• has slow, purposeless twisting of his hands

Clenching the hand into fist, or sitting down are examples of

Atrophy is

• sleeping paralysis

• wasting away the muscle because of malnutrition etc.

Partial paralysis of one side of the body is called______