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Skeleton Sysetm

The document outlines the functions of the skeletal system, including muscle attachment, weight support, locomotion, and serving as a reservoir for calcium and fat. It explains muscle contraction and the role of antagonistic muscle pairs in facilitating movement at joints, such as the biceps and triceps at the elbow. Additionally, it describes different types of joints, including hinge joints and ball-and-socket joints, and their respective movements.

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Skeleton Sysetm

The document outlines the functions of the skeletal system, including muscle attachment, weight support, locomotion, and serving as a reservoir for calcium and fat. It explains muscle contraction and the role of antagonistic muscle pairs in facilitating movement at joints, such as the biceps and triceps at the elbow. Additionally, it describes different types of joints, including hinge joints and ball-and-socket joints, and their respective movements.

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Unit 7.

4 - Moving the body

Function of skeleton system

●​ Bones remain as region for attachment of muscles.


●​ It helps to hold the weight of the body.
●​ This system is useful for locomotion.
●​ The bones remain as reservoir for calcium and fat.

Muscles

●​ Muscles work by getting shorter. We say that they contract, and the
process is called contraction.
●​ Muscles are attached to bones by strong tendons.
●​ When a muscle contracts, it pulls on the bone, and the bone can move
if it is part of a joint.
Antagonistic muscles
●​ Muscles transfer force to bones through tendons.
●​ They move our bones and associated body parts by pulling on them
●​ This process is called muscle contraction
●​ Muscles can only pull and cannot push.
●​ This would be a problem if a joint were controlled by just one muscle.
●​ As soon as the muscle had contracted and pulled on a bone, that
would be it, with noway to move the bone back again.
●​ This problem is solved by having muscles in pairs, called antagonistic
muscles
●​ The action of one muscle produces an opposite effect to the other
muscle and movement to the opposite direction. The two muscles are
therefore called as antagonistic muscle pair.
●​ For example, your elbow joint has two muscles that move your
forearm up or down. These are the biceps on the front of the upper
arm and the triceps on the back of the upper arm:
For example, your elbow joint has two muscles that move your forearm up
or down. These are the biceps on the front of the upper arm and the triceps
on the back of the upper arm:

To raise the forearm, the biceps contracts and the triceps relaxes
To lower the forearm again, the triceps contracts and the biceps relaxes
The biceps contracts and raises the forearm as the triceps relaxes

Joint:

●​ Place where bones meet


●​ Hinge joint: hinge joint such as elbows and knees move like the
hinge on a door. These bones can only move forward and backward.
●​ Ball and socket joint: Hip and shoulder joint are called ball and
socket joints because the end of one bone forms a round structure like
a ball, that fix into a cup shaped socket. This allows movement like
backward and forward, from side to side and even circular movement.

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