WSU EXAM 1 QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
What is felxion? - Answers Shortening of a joint, bending
What is extension? - Answers Lengthening of a joint, extending
What is abduction? - Answers Movement away from the midline of the body
what is aduction? - Answers Movement towards the midline of the body.
What is internal rotation? - Answers rotating towards the body
What is external rotation? - Answers rotating away from the body
What is pronation? - Answers facing downwards
What is supination? - Answers facing upwards
What is dorsiflexion? - Answers ankle and toes flexing up
What is plantar flexion? - Answers ankle and toes pointing down
What motions occur in the sagittal plane? - Answers flexion and extension
What motions occur in the frontal plane? - Answers abduction and adduction
What motions occur in the transverse plane? - Answers rotations
Anterior - Answers front
Posterior - Answers back
Medial - Answers toward midline
Lateral - Answers away from midline (to side)
Proximal - Answers closer to the trunk
Distal - Answers farther from trunk
Superior - Answers above
Inferior - Answers below
What are motor points? - Answers where motor nerve enters muscle, causing contraction
What are afferent nerves? - Answers sensory nerves, from peripheral to CNS.
What are efferent nerves? - Answers motor nerves, from CNS to peripheral.
What is a dermatome? - Answers area of skin supplied by one spinal nerve
What is a myotome? - Answers group of muscles supplied by one spinal nerve
What is Center of Gravity? - Answers point where body weight is, belly button
What is Line of Gravity? - Answers imaginary vertical line that passes through the center of gravity
What is Base of Support? - Answers area beneath body that supports it
Stability increases when...? - Answers Base of support is wider
Where do tendons connect? - Answers muscle to bone
What are tendon fibers like? - Answers parallel because they handle force in the same direction
Where to ligaments connect? - Answers bone to bone
What are ligament fibers like? - Answers run in multiple directions because they handle force in many
directions.
Where are hinge joints found? - Answers elbow and knee
Where are ball and socket joints found? - Answers hip and shoulder
Where are pivot joints found? - Answers neck
Where are saddle joints found? - Answers thumb
What does excitability mean? - Answers ability to respond to stimuli
What does contractility mean? - Answers ability to shorten
What does extensibility mean? - Answers ability to stretch
What does elasticity mean? - Answers ability to return to original shape
What does innervation mean? - Answers nerve supply
Concentric muscle contraction is? - Answers muscle shortening
Eccentric muscle contraction is? - Answers muscle lengthens
Isometric muscle contraction is? - Answers contraction with no joint movement
What do muscle spindles detect and cause? - Answers detect stretches, causes reflex
What do golgi tendon organs detect and prevent? - Answers detects tensions, prevents tears
What is a 1st class lever? - Answers When the fulcrum is in the middle.
What is a 2nd class lever? - Answers Resistance is in the middle
What is a 3rd class lever? - Answers effort is in the middle
What is a myotendinous junction? - Answers where muscles connect to tendons
What is a tenoperiosteal jucntion? - Answers where tendons connect to bones
What is compact bone? - Answers Dense outer layer of bone
What is felxion? - Answers Shortening of a joint, bending
What is extension? - Answers Lengthening of a joint, extending
What is abduction? - Answers Movement away from the midline of the body
what is aduction? - Answers Movement towards the midline of the body.
What is internal rotation? - Answers rotating towards the body
What is external rotation? - Answers rotating away from the body
What is pronation? - Answers facing downwards
What is supination? - Answers facing upwards
What is dorsiflexion? - Answers ankle and toes flexing up
What is plantar flexion? - Answers ankle and toes pointing down
What motions occur in the sagittal plane? - Answers flexion and extension
What motions occur in the frontal plane? - Answers abduction and adduction
What motions occur in the transverse plane? - Answers rotations
Anterior - Answers front
Posterior - Answers back
Medial - Answers toward midline
Lateral - Answers away from midline (to side)
Proximal - Answers closer to the trunk
Distal - Answers farther from trunk
Superior - Answers above
Inferior - Answers below
What are motor points? - Answers where motor nerve enters muscle, causing contraction
What are afferent nerves? - Answers sensory nerves, from peripheral to CNS.
What are efferent nerves? - Answers motor nerves, from CNS to peripheral.
What is a dermatome? - Answers area of skin supplied by one spinal nerve
What is a myotome? - Answers group of muscles supplied by one spinal nerve
What is Center of Gravity? - Answers point where body weight is, belly button
What is Line of Gravity? - Answers imaginary vertical line that passes through the center of gravity
What is Base of Support? - Answers area beneath body that supports it
Stability increases when...? - Answers Base of support is wider
Where do tendons connect? - Answers muscle to bone
What are tendon fibers like? - Answers parallel because they handle force in the same direction
Where to ligaments connect? - Answers bone to bone
What are ligament fibers like? - Answers run in multiple directions because they handle force in many
directions.
Where are hinge joints found? - Answers elbow and knee
Where are ball and socket joints found? - Answers hip and shoulder
Where are pivot joints found? - Answers neck
Where are saddle joints found? - Answers thumb
What does excitability mean? - Answers ability to respond to stimuli
What does contractility mean? - Answers ability to shorten
What does extensibility mean? - Answers ability to stretch
What does elasticity mean? - Answers ability to return to original shape
What does innervation mean? - Answers nerve supply
Concentric muscle contraction is? - Answers muscle shortening
Eccentric muscle contraction is? - Answers muscle lengthens
Isometric muscle contraction is? - Answers contraction with no joint movement
What do muscle spindles detect and cause? - Answers detect stretches, causes reflex
What do golgi tendon organs detect and prevent? - Answers detects tensions, prevents tears
What is a 1st class lever? - Answers When the fulcrum is in the middle.
What is a 2nd class lever? - Answers Resistance is in the middle
What is a 3rd class lever? - Answers effort is in the middle
What is a myotendinous junction? - Answers where muscles connect to tendons
What is a tenoperiosteal jucntion? - Answers where tendons connect to bones
What is compact bone? - Answers Dense outer layer of bone
