Skeletalmuscles (commonly referred to as muscles) are organs ofthe vertebrate muscular system and typically are attached by tendons to bones of a skeleton...
Movement is powered by skeletalmuscles, which are attached to the skeleton at various sites on bones. Muscles, bones, and joints provide the principal mechanics...
Theskeletalmuscle pump or musculovenous pump is a collection ofskeletalmuscles that aid the heart in the circulation of blood. It is especially important...
skeletal, smooth, and cardiac (cardiomyocytes). A skeletalmuscle cell is long and threadlike with many nuclei and is called a muscle fiber. Muscle cells...
(2016). "1 - Basic Kinesiology Terminology". The Muscular System Manual: TheSkeletalMusclesoftheHumanBody. Elsevier. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-323-32771-8. Striedter...
The gluteus maximus is the main extensor muscleofthe hip in humans. It is the largest and outermost ofthe three gluteal muscles and makes up a large...
molding ofskeletal structures, as well as the distribution ofmuscles and fat. Skeletal structure grows and changes only up to the point at which a human reaches...
Development ofthehumanbody is the process of growth to maturity. The process begins with fertilization, where an egg released from the ovary of a female...
The adult humanbody is estimated to contain about 30 trillion (3×1013) human cells, with the number varying between 20 to 40 trillion depending on factors...
flexor in the thenar muscle group. Thehuman thumb also has other muscles in the thenar group (opponens and abductor brevis muscle), moving the thumb in...
ISBN 978-0-8053-4940-5. Muscolino, Joseph E. (2005). The Muscular System Manual: TheSkeletalMusclesoftheHumanBody (2nd ed.). C.V. Mosby. ISBN 978-0-323-02523-2...
tough band of dense fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone. It sends the mechanical forces ofmuscle contraction to theskeletal system,...
The effects of spaceflight on thehumanbody are complex and largely harmful over both short and long term. Significant adverse effects of long-term weightlessness...
κίνησις (kínēsis) 'movement', and -λογία -logía 'study of') is the scientific study ofhumanbody movement. Kinesiology addresses physiological, anatomical...
tissues and active skeletalmuscles. Notably, HGF, a cytokine, is transferred from the extracellular matrix into muscles through the nitric-oxide dependent...
brain, and heart, and in contraction ofskeletalmuscles. Humans have been able to adapt to a great diversity of climates, including hot humid and hot...
Cardiac muscle (also called heart muscle or myocardium) is one of three types of vertebrate muscle tissues, with the other two being skeletalmuscle and smooth...
member ofthe TGF beta protein family. Myostatin is assembled and produced in skeletalmuscle before it is released into the blood stream. Most ofthe data...