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    Body in Action – Muscular System Roughly 40% of your body mass is made up of muscle‚ the key purpose of which is to move the bones of your body. In this assignment muscle movements and short and long term responses to exercise will be looked at. Types of Muscle Within the body‚ there are three different types of muscle. 1. Cardiac Muscle 2. Skeletal Muscle 3. Smooth Muscle Cardiac Muscle This is specialised muscle of the heart (BTEC National Sport Book 1). This is an involuntary type

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    of the woman and baby? d. By the four main sutures such as coronal suture‚ sagittal suture‚ lambdoid suture and squamous sutures. E. What features of the vertebral column would the larger skeleton in the sarcophagus show to indicate it was female? e. The vertebral column of a male in about 71 cm (28 in.) for a female the vertebral column of a female would be about 61 cm (24 in.) F. What bone in the neck region other than cervical vertebrae may be damaged during strangulation or neck trauma

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    structure‚ skull shape‚ and last but not least vertebral column shape. The human foot now acts as a platform to support the entire weight of the human body. Knee joints were enlarged to better support human body weight and were placed directly under the body‚ unlike ancestral hominids whose knees were placed outward of the body. The hip joints were enlarged for the same exact reason. Hips also changed into a wider shape‚ bringing the vertebral column closer to the hip

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    are a set of seven irregularly shaped bones. They are situated in the foot and in the ankle area. Metatarsals – The metatarsals are used to connect the phalanges to the tarsals. They are found in the foot. Vertebral column – The vertebral column is more commonly known as the spinal column. It’s mainly used for protection of the spinal cord. It also provides stiffening for the body and attachment for the pectoral and pelvic girdles. Cervical – The cervical is the vertebrae of the neck. The first

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    2 and what bones are within each. -2 Divisions— Appendicular & Axial -The axial skeleton consists of bones that form the axis of the body and support and protect the organs of the head‚ neck‚ and trunk the skull‚ the sternum‚ the ribs‚ the vertebral column -The appendicular skeleton is composed of bones that anchor the appendages to the axial skeleton. The upper and lower extremities‚ the shoulder girdle‚ the pelvic girdle 7. Give the four general categories of bones and their descriptions.

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    and can be divided up into to two parts‚ the Axial Skeleton and the Appendicular Skeleton. (Adams et al.‚ pg. 4)(Boundless‚ 2013) Axial Skeleton The axial skeleton forms the main axis or core of the skeletal system. It consists of the skull‚ vertebral column‚ and thoracic cage. As noted by Adams et al. (2010)‚ the axial skeleton consists of 80 bones. The axial skeleton has two functions. The first is that it provides support and protection for the organs in the dorsal and ventral cavities such as

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    remains by the four main sutures such as: 1. Coronal Suture 2. Sagittal Suture 3. Lambdoid Suture 4. Squamous Sutures E.) What features of the vertebral column would the larger skeleton in the sarcophagus show to indicate it was female? The vertebral column of a male is about 71 cm (28in)‚ for a female the vertebral column is about 61 cm (24in). F.) What bone in the neck region other than cervical vertebrae may be damaged during strangulation or neck trauma? The bone that could

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    INVOLVED FOR EACH ACTION Scapular (Shoulder Girdle) Actions: Elevation: upward movement (shoulder shrug) Depression: downward movement (return from shoulder shrug) Abduction: (protraction) away from the vertebral column – baseball stretch Adduction: (retraction) toward vertebral column – pinching shoulder blades together Upward Rotation: scapula’s inferior angle moving away from midline – raising arms Downward Rotation: scapula’s inferior angle towards midline – return from raising arms

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    taken out and then ligament of falvum was lifted from inferior laminas surface at lower side of cephalad lamina by using curette. To performe Partial facetectomies‚ a burr and Kerrison rongeurs were used to create hemilaminectomy opening to the vertebral disc. Laterally ligament of flavum was released from the facets‚ cauded and cephalad from the laminas‚ then retraction of medially based flap against dura which is protacting traversing root of nerve‚ it is protected underneath the ligamentum flavum

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    Who would we be if our body did not consist of bones? A big blob? A thin figure? Bones are very vital to our body. It is what builds us up. Bones all together makes our skeleton. It is very important that we know about and take care of our bodies. Our bones give us our distinct body shape along with supporting and protecting our organs and systems. The bones that make up our skeletons are all very much alive‚ growing and changing all the time like other parts of our body. Even though our bones are

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