Muscular System
The muscular system allows humans to move. Muscles also provide strength, balance and heat.
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An8thgWhat could cause high monocytes, high level of sed rate and low lymphocytes in bloodwork of toddler?
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Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an extremely rare genetic disorder -- only occurring in 1 out of 2 million people....
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Heart muscles
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Skeletal muscle, straited
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Tendons are what connect muscles to bones.
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gluteus medius
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It could be a number of reasons. Pain in the ribbed area of the chest is called angina. Extremely severe pains in the chest...
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no, it is not found IN the muscles but AROUND it. this is to protect the bones from rubbing together etc
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Stress induced most of the time, other reasons could be nerve damage, anxiousness, anxiety and you can stop it with pressure most...
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Clostridium tetani is a bacterium that produces and secretes a toxin -- the tetanus toxin -- that paralyzes muscles. Tetanus is...
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Muscles move by contraction. When the cells shorten, the muscle pulls on the ligaments that connect the bones and the movable...
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Probably not. Even if you could, wth?
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Respiration. The diaphragm is a sheet of muscle separating the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity which, when relaxed, domes...
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Autonomic
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Err, you can't really count them, since pretty much each smooth cell can be counted as a muscle of it's own, but simplifying...
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Rectus Femoris Rectus Femoris
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It is basically how your body works
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Absolutely. Its possible to pull any muscle and the Gluteus Maximus and minimus (the two major muscles in your butt) are no...
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Muscels often work in pairs so that they can pull in different or opposite directions. The cells that make up muscels contract...
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Tendons are merely the end parts of muscles - at either end, generally comprising tough connective tissue that is also continuous...
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None, superficial to it is the investing fascia
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Gregg Valentino is credited as having the world's largest biceps. He started bodybuilding at the age of 13 and his body...
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The type of protein measured in blood is often the protein involved with the immune system. High levels of protein in the blood...
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AnswerThe only thing that i can think of there is that, even though you are gaining muscle you may not be loosing some fat! the...
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I believe this is Creatine....unless you are looking into something more specific.
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No, cardiac muscle is striated but involuntary.
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Internal organs usually do not move. Unless you mean the contraction of the heart, which is composed of cardiomyocytes. If you...
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Of all the muscles contracting simulataneously, the one that is mainly responsible for producing a particular movement is called...
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Diaphragm and the intercostals
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No. Only skeletal muscles are connected to bones. They don't attach directly to the bones, but are attached by tendons that...
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muscles work in pairs by set of relaxation and contraction which are done simultaneously by the muscles involved.
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The motor cortex.
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actin and myosin are the basic muscle tissues.
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Muscles burn sugars to generate energy, and in the process, CO2 is generated as a waste product. This is absorbed by the red...
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Acetylcholine is released at the neuromuscular junction and binds to a nicotinic receptor, causing an action potential to fire...
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Lanolin is secreted by glands in the skin of animals that have wool, like sheep. People have body hair, and not wool, so lanolin...
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- relase indorfens and other chemicals- mind is clear
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by doing resistance training with weights
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A synergist eliminates the undesireable effects of thr agonist muscle. For the hamstring contraction, there eeds tp ne a snergist...
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Yes. Muscular growth is partially dependent on genetic factors. Even so, such people need to take in nutrients to support muscle...
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When the muscle contracts, it gets shorter. When it relaxes, it gets longer.
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Lactic Acid
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The quadriceps. They are made of four individual muscles; rectus femoris, vastus intermedius, vastus lateralis, and vastus...
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844.8 Other specified site of leg or knee is as close as you will get!
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Relaxation therapy has been around for thousands of years in the forms of transcendental meditation (TM), yoga, t'ai chi, qigong...
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Sternomastoid, lying in the neck, is well superior to rectus abdominis which lies in the anterior abdominal wall.
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Moving the leg "sideways" is known as abducting the thigh. The gluteal muscles (gluteus maximus, medius, and minimus) are mostly...
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Newborns Your baby's neck muscles are fairly weak at birth, so she'll rely on you to support her head and neck for at least the...
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well for some people their muscles will ache, its because they are so use to eating this large amount of food that might not be...
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teres minor
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If your old your muscles rapidly contract (Shivering) to generate heat, the hair on your arms stands up to absorb the heat and...
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Tightness and kinks in the neck can cause headaches.
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series-elastic elements
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lactic acid
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type in a more appropriate answer as this questions doesnt have a specific answer.
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diaphragm
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in the forearm
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No. The human genome project proves that muscle structure remains the same from one person to another with the occasional rare...
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Tendons are strong fibrous tissues that attach muscle to the bone. Tendons mainly consist of collagen, the most abundant protein...
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Muscles are connected to bones by tendons. Ligaments hold joints together.
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The origin of a muscle is where the muscle starts ("the starting point"). The insertion of a muscle is where the muscle ends...
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Carbonation is not known to have any effect on muscles. However, there is some research that indicates that carbonation, over...
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Tips on how to take care of the nervous system:1. To protect the brain, avoid any fall or accident that can injure it. Observe...
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It doesn't really decrease along as you eat alot. you don't exactly have to work out to keep your muscle up if your happy with...
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1. movement 2. respiratory 3. maintain skeletal posture 4.communication as it involves speaking.
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circular muscles
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the mucle in your arm is the strongest of all
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The thymus is a gland not a muscle. It is part of the immune system in children and becomes dormant in an adult. I don't know...
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The cerebellum is the area that helps control balance and motor coordination and the coordination of thinking processes. This...
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There are three types of muscle tissues- smooth, skeletal and cardiac. Smooth tissues regulate the blood pressure and flow of...
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"para" means 'next to' "spinous" means 'spine' It is a series of muscles that run next to the spine...
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The quadriceps has 4 units while the biceps has 2.
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Leiomyosarcoma
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he has a large buildup of lacate in his muscles.
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It is a muscle that goes from the styloid process, which comes off the temporal bone of the skull (kind of near the back of the...
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As the athlete begins to start running forward, right arm goes forward at the same time as the left arm going back. This forms...
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the function of a muscle cell is, by definition, to move. this an be accomplished when the cell contracts. contracting makes it...
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No.They do not have any extra muscles, it may be the way they are brought up, or adaptations in other parts of their bodies.
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You cant live without the skeletal muscle because the skeletal muscle helps with your joints not to move in an uncomfortable...
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No, it's acetylcholine
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its your brain tells the neck muscles
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That happend to me once ---I woke up from sharp pains in the left side of my chest and every time i moved it got worse and i...
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In Short... It seems that it either takes one muscle (the Occipitofrontalis) OR two (the Frontalis and the Occipitalis) to...
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One of the major differences is the type of fibers present on each of them: - For example: Skeletal Muscle contains both Fast...
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