Skeletal and Muscular System Crossword

Strong connective tissue,helps to transmit power and joins muscle to bone
Bands of connective tissue, very tough and resilient, keep joints stable joins bone to bone
This is a connective tissue, role is to reduce friction and act as a shock absorber
This muscle causes flexion at the elbow
This muscle causes extension at the elbow
This is the working muscle that produces and controls the movement - contracts and shortens
The relaxing and lengthening muscle part of a pair of muscles
Decreasing the angle at a joint
Increasing the angle at a joint
Movement away from the midline
movement towards the mid line of the body
This movement is when the bone turns about its long axis
Combination of adduction, abduction, flexion or extension and rotation
This muscle is used in all movements of the arm, its main function is to lift the arm
This ankle is used to extend the ankle joint -point the toes
These muscles extend the hip joint and adduct the hip
These muscles bend the body forward at the hip causing flexion of the vertebral column
This is the muscle that serves as the stabiliser