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Muscle Fibers
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Long slender cells that make up muscles.
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Fascia
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The sheet of fibrous connective tissue that covers, supports, and seperates muscles or group of muscles.
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Myofascial
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Pertaining to muscle tissue
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Skeletal Muscle
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Attached to the bones of the skeleton and make movement possible
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Smooth Muscle
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Located in the walls of internal organs, such as digestive tract, blood vessels and ducts leading from glands.
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Myocardial Muscle
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Form muscular walls of the heart
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Muscle Innervation
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The stimualtion of a muscle by an impulse transmitted by a motor nerve.
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Neuromuscular
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Pertaining to the relationship between nerve and muscle.
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Contraction
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Tightening of a muscle
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Relaxation
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Occurs when a mucle returns to its original form
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Abduction
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Is the movement of a limb away from the midline of the body
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Adduction
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Is movement of a limb toward the midkine of the body
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Flexion
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Means decreasing the angle between two bones by bending a limb joint
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Extension
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Increasing the angle between two bones or the straightening of a limb.
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Hyperextension
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The exreme or overextension of a limb or body part beyond it normal limit
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