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What is a muscle that straightens a limb at a joint is called a?
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Which muscle straightens a joint?
A muscle that straightens a joint is called an extensor.Extensors are the muscles whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or other part of the body.Extensor muscle
What contracts to extends or straighten the limb at the joint?
This type of muscle contracts to bend a limb at a joint
Contracting muscle responsible for bending a limb or joint?
Flexor
What are extensors?
Extensor muscles open a joint and are the opposite to flexor muscles, which close it. I imagine triceps are extensor, while biceps are flexor.
What is the function of the brachialis?
Thie brachialis is a muscle in the arm of the upper limb and it is the primary flexor of the elbow joint.
Muscles that bend a limb are called?
muscles bend limbs by pulling, they can not push. the answer is; a muscle is a muscle.
What is the function of Proprioceptors?
Proprioceptors are sensors that provide information about joint angle, muscle length, and muscle tension, which is integrated to give information about the position of the limb in space.
A muscle is called what when it gets longer?
Well the limb will be Extended and the muscle will be elongated or in "extention", as opposed to a flexed or shortented muscle.
List of two joint muscles in upper and lower limb?
Two joint muscles in the upper limb is the wrist and the elbow. Two joint muscles in the lower limb is the ankle and the knee.
What is actual position of hip?
The hip the name for the joint between the lower limb and the pelvis. It is a ball and socked joint where the head of the femur is the ball and the the acetabulum is the socket. The joint is buried under layers of muscle and is not visible externally.
What is actual position of the hip?
The hip the name for the joint between the lower limb and the pelvis. It is a ball and socked joint where the head of the femur is the ball and the the acetabulum is the socket. The joint is buried under layers of muscle and is not visible externally.
Muscle connecting lower and upper limb?
The muscle is, Lattisimus dorsi, connected with upper limb at the bicipital groove and with lower limb at illiac crest.
