Muscle review

• Functions of muscles


  • Stability
  • Movement
  • Breathing
  • Body heat
  • Digestive functions
• Main types of muscle tissue

  • Cardiac muscle
  • Smooth muscle
  • Skeletal muscle
• Tendon


  Structure that attaches muscle to bone
• Flexion


  A bending movement around a joint of limb
• Extension


  Movement that increases the angle between two
• Abduction


  Movement of a limb away from midline
• Adduction


  Returns a limb to the side of the body
• Rotation


  Turning on an axis
• Atrophy


  A decrease in the size of an organ or tissue, wasting
• Collagen


  The main component of tendons