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No the flexor closes the joint.
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Is tricepes flexor?
Triceps muscle is not a flexor. Triceps is an extensor of elbow joint. Biceps muscle is flexor.
What does the 'extensor muscle' do?
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 name of the muscle that closes a joint?
Flexor
What type of muscle bends a joint.?
Flexor
What type of muscle bends joint?
Flexor
What is the name of a muscle that closes a joint?
Flexor
When you bend your arms what muscle is the flexor?
Probably the Biceps Brachii (commonly called Biceps).
What is the muscle that causes parts of the body to bend?
A flexor is a muscle that causes a joint to bend. In contrast, an extension is a muscle that straightens a joint.
Contracting muscle responsible for bending a limb or joint?
Flexor
What type of movement does the contraction of a flexor muscle?
Any flexor muscle decreases the angle of a joint. When you flex your biceps brachii, the distance between your forearm and arm becomes closer together. When you use your extensors on the same joint, your arm will straighten.
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.
Which muscle is a superficial anterior flexor muscle?
flexor digitorum superficialis
