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What is the medical term meaning decreasing an angle as in bending a joint?
Flexing is the medical term meaning decreasing an angle as in bending a joint.
What is the medical term meaning chronic flexion of joint?
In medical terms, flexion means decreasing the angle of a joint.
What muscles decrease the angle between the bones of a joint?
Flexors decrease the angles . Extensorsincrease the angles.
What term means to bend a limp at the joint?
Flexion or extension; flexion is decreasing the angle between two points
When the angle of a joint increases it produces movement Which type of movement is it?
To increase the angle of a joint is extension. To decrease the angle of a joint is flexion. (plato users the answer is A.)
What is a right angle joint called?
A right angle joint is called a vertex as is with any other angle (yes even straight angles)
What does a flexor do?
A flexor is a skeletal muscle whose contraction bends a joint. In anatomy, flexion is a position that is made possible by the joint angle decreasing. The skeletal (bones, cartilage, and ligaments) and muscular (muscles and tendons) systems work together to move the joint into a "flexed" position. ...
What is the medical term meaning twisting of a joint?
Athetosis is involuntary writhing movement at a joint.Torsion is a general technical word for twisting.Sprain is sometimes the result of twisting of a joint.Athetosis
What are the advantages of a mitre joint?
A mitre joint forms a nice right angle.
What is the difference between muscle flexing and and muscle extension?
when u flex it, it tightens, when u extend it, it stretches Flexion is when a muscle action decreases the angle at a joint, extension is when the angle increases. A simple example is bicep curl, flexion is when the hand is brought up towards the shoulder, decreasing the angle at the elbow joint. Just because a muscle is performing flexion or extension does not not mean it is contracting or stretching, that is eccentric and concentric movement. A muscle can still be tight when performing extension.
Increasing the angle of a joint?
extension
What is movement during which the knees or elbows are bent to decrease the angle of the joint?
Flexion is movement during which the knees or elbows are bent to decrease the angle of the joint
