HS1 Muscular Vocab

movement away from the midline

• Abduction

• Adduction

• Fascia

• Flexion

movement toward the midline

• Adduction

• Aerobic

• Rotation

• Synergist

requiring oxygen

• Dilate

• Anaerobic

• Insertion

• Aerobic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

contracts the muscle to cause movement

• Agonist

• Prime Mover

• Pronation

• Striated

requiring no oxygen

• Eversion

• Dilate

• Anaerobic

• Isometric

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-3

produces movement in the opposite direction of prime mover

• Origin

• Circumduction

• Isotonic

• Antagonist

circular movement of a joint

• Adduction

• Abduction

• Circumduction

• Flexion

become wider, larger or more open

• Flexion

• Dilate

• Origin

• Isotonic

turn outward

• Extension

• Origin

• Inversion

• Eversion

act of increasing the angle between two bones, straightening motion

• Extension

• Eversion

• Inversion

• Origin