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Are Muscles that bend a joint called extensors and muscles that straighten a joint called flexors?
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Yes, that's true.
False.
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What are the flexor and extensor muscles for your legs?
The major flexors of the knee are the hamstrings, which include: biceps femoris, semitendinosus, and semimembranosus. The major extensors of the knee are the quadriceps, which include: rectus femoris, vastus medialis, and vastus lateralis.
What are the neck extensors?
trapezius, splenius muscles, and semispinalis muscles
How do the flexor and extensor muscles work together in the body?
When bones attached to a muscle are connected by a flexible joint, contraction of the muscle moves the skeleton. The muscle is called a flexor if the centers of the connected bones are brought closer together when the muscle contracts, and the movement is called flexion. (Biceps)The muscle is called an extensor if the bones move away from each other when the muscle contracts, and the movement is called extension. (Triceps)
What is the muscle that closes a joint?
Muscles that brings the two (or more) bones that form it closer are called flexors.
When you straighten your leg what muscles contract and relax?
Ummm I think chicken legs :P
Are muscles that bend a joint called extensors?
Muscles that bend a joint are flexors; musces that straighten a joint are extensors.
Why are skeletal muscles often found in opposing pairs?
Skeletal muscles are found in pairs called flexors and extensors. The flexors bend a joint, and the extensors straighten the joint. Muscles cannot push; they only pull.
What do skeletal muscles always work in?
Skeletal muscles work in pairs: flexors and extensors
What are the differences between flexors and extensors?
There are flexors and extensors in the forearm and they control the movements of the hand and wrist. If you hold your hand out (with the palm down), the flexors allow your hand to bend downward. The extensors allow your hand to bend upward.
How many muscles are in the human thighs?
Three - extensors, flexors, and adductors.
What muscles do you use when you play video games?
Wrist/finger flexors and extensors and the muscles in the thumb. Not allot.
What are the basic crutch muscles?
shoulder depressors, extensors, adductors and abductors. elbow extensors, wrist extensors and finger flexors.
What are the muscles in the hand and forearm called?
The two major groups are flexors and extensors.
Muscles in the legs?
3 Peronei, triceps surae, extensors and flexors of the toes and the 2 tibialis.
Skeletal muscles are attached to the bones of the appendicular skeleton in opposing pairs called?
flexors and extensors
Are abs a flexor?
Yes, the abdominal muscles, for the most part are considered as flexors. They oppose the muscles in the back which are extensors. Working together the abs and back muscles keep the spine in proper alignment.
Is triceps are flexors true or false?
Triceps (the muscles behind/under your arm) are NOT flexors. They are extensors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triceps_brachii_muscle You flex your biceps, not triceps.
