Med terms

Atrophy- decrease in size of a body part

Smooth muscle - muscle that lacks striations

Skeletal muscle - strinted muscle that is attached to the skeleton

Sarcomere - any of the repeating structural units of striated musce fibrit

Isometric - muscle contraction without shortening

Isotonic - muscle contraction that results with muscle shortening

Abdominal hernia - opening, tear, or weakness in the abdomint wall in which anatomical parts.

inguinal hernia - soft tissue bulges through a weak point in the abdominal muscles.

Hiatal hernia - stomach pushes up through the diaphragm muscle.

Myalgia - pain in one or more muscles

Elasticity - quality or state of being elastic -flexible

Excitability - capable of being activated by and reacting to stimuli

Contractibility - to cause to shorten and thicken; draw together.

Insertion - the part of muscle by which it is attached to the joint to be moved

origin - the more fixed, central, or larger attachment of a nuscle

Muscle dystrophy - disease that causes loss of muscle mass

Tetanus - spasm of voluntary muscles produced by bacterium Clostridium

Torricelli - twisting of the neck to one side