Rehab Vocab 4

What is the movement shown in the picture below?

• Radial Deviation
• Ulnar Deviation
• Flexion
• Opposition

What is the object in the picture?

• Inclinometer
• Goniometer
• Petrometer
• Protractor

Muscle cell membrane

• Sarcolemma
• Origin
• Insertion
• Belly of muscle

Muscle fibers that are stimulated by nerves contract or become short and thick to create movement.

• Excitability
• Action Potential
• Contractibility
• Elasticity

The change in electrical potential associated with the passage of an impulse along the membrane of a muscle cell or nerve cell.

• Depolarization
• Plateau
• Action Potential
• Repolarization

Responsiveness, ability to receive and respond to a stimulus

• Elasticity of muscle
• Excitability of muscle
• Extensibility of muscle
• Contractibility

The ability to be stretched without damaging the tissue

• Elasticity of muscle
• Extensibility of muscle
• Excitability of muscle
• Contractibility

The attachment of a muscle tendon to a moveable bone or the end opposite the origin.

• Insertion
• Origin
• Belly of the muscle
• Fascia

Area of greatest mass of a muscle.

• Origin
• Insertion
• Belly of the muscle
• Fascia

Attachment of a muscle that remains fixed during muscular contraction.

• Origin
• Insertion
• Belly of the muscle
• Fascia