MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY MUSCULAR
SYSTEM CH 4 EXAM WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
Bi- - ✔✔Twice, double, two
-cele - ✔✔Hernia, tumor, swelling
Dys- - ✔✔Bad
Fasci/o - ✔✔Fascia, fibrous band
Fibr/o - ✔✔Fibrous tissue, fiber
-ia - ✔✔Abnormal condition, disease, plural of -ium
-ic - ✔✔Pertaining to
Kinesi/o - ✔✔Movement
,My/o - ✔✔Muscle
-plegia - ✔✔Paralysis, stroke
-rrhexis - ✔✔Rupture
Tax/o - ✔✔Coordination, order
Tendin/o - ✔✔Tendon, stretch out, extend, strain
Tri- - ✔✔Three
Muscle fibers - ✔✔The long, slender cells that make up muscles
Fascia - ✔✔A band of connective tissue that envelops, separates, or
binds together muscles or groups of muscles
Myofascial - ✔✔Pertaining to muscle tissue and fascia
Tendon - ✔✔A narrow band of nonelastic, dense, fibrous tissue that
attaches a muscle to a bone.
, Aponeurosis - ✔✔A sheet-like fibrous connective tissue, which
resembles a flattened tendon that serves as a fascia to bind muscles
together or as a means of connecting muscle to bone
Skeletal muscles - ✔✔Attached to bones of the skeleton and make body
motions possible
Voluntary muscles - ✔✔Skeletal muscles that we have conscious
(voluntary) control over.
Striated muscles - ✔✔Skeletal muscles that, under a microscope, the
dark and light bands in the muscles create a striped appearance.
Smooth muscles - ✔✔Located in the walls of internal organs
Involuntary muscles - ✔✔Smooth muscles that are under the control of
the autonomic nervous system
Unstriated muscles - ✔✔Smooth muscles, they do not have the dark
and light bands that produce the striped appearance seen in striated
muscles
SYSTEM CH 4 EXAM WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS { GRADED A+}
Bi- - ✔✔Twice, double, two
-cele - ✔✔Hernia, tumor, swelling
Dys- - ✔✔Bad
Fasci/o - ✔✔Fascia, fibrous band
Fibr/o - ✔✔Fibrous tissue, fiber
-ia - ✔✔Abnormal condition, disease, plural of -ium
-ic - ✔✔Pertaining to
Kinesi/o - ✔✔Movement
,My/o - ✔✔Muscle
-plegia - ✔✔Paralysis, stroke
-rrhexis - ✔✔Rupture
Tax/o - ✔✔Coordination, order
Tendin/o - ✔✔Tendon, stretch out, extend, strain
Tri- - ✔✔Three
Muscle fibers - ✔✔The long, slender cells that make up muscles
Fascia - ✔✔A band of connective tissue that envelops, separates, or
binds together muscles or groups of muscles
Myofascial - ✔✔Pertaining to muscle tissue and fascia
Tendon - ✔✔A narrow band of nonelastic, dense, fibrous tissue that
attaches a muscle to a bone.
, Aponeurosis - ✔✔A sheet-like fibrous connective tissue, which
resembles a flattened tendon that serves as a fascia to bind muscles
together or as a means of connecting muscle to bone
Skeletal muscles - ✔✔Attached to bones of the skeleton and make body
motions possible
Voluntary muscles - ✔✔Skeletal muscles that we have conscious
(voluntary) control over.
Striated muscles - ✔✔Skeletal muscles that, under a microscope, the
dark and light bands in the muscles create a striped appearance.
Smooth muscles - ✔✔Located in the walls of internal organs
Involuntary muscles - ✔✔Smooth muscles that are under the control of
the autonomic nervous system
Unstriated muscles - ✔✔Smooth muscles, they do not have the dark
and light bands that produce the striped appearance seen in striated
muscles
