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What muscle is in the leg that bends the knee and is made up of three muscles?
The only muscle of the leg that is made up of three muscles are the hamstrings.
What is the action of the quadriceps muscle group?
Flexing the thigh, extending the leg, adducts leg
Functions of triceps femoris muscle of frog?
extends leg; straightens knee joint
Name the muscle group that flexes the lower leg?
The dorsiflexors include the extensorum longus, the tibialis anterior, and the peroneus.
What is the difference between tendu and degage?
Tendu is a leg exercise that stretches the leg muscle at you extend it. And degage is the same but a little lift off the floor.
What is a quadcacepe?
The quadriceps is the large muscle at the front of the thigh, which is divided into four distinct portions and acts to extend the leg.
What muscle extend the leg?
the muscles that extends the lower leg are vastus lateralis, vastus medialis and vastus intermedius. These muscles collectively make up the quadriceps..
What muscle bends your knee?
The quadriceps muscle helps straighten and extend the leg and the hamstring helps bend the knee.
Which muscle is located deep to the semitendinosus muscle?
Much of the semimembranosus lies deep to the semitendinosus.
Is The antagonist muscle to the quadriceps is the hamstring?
The Hamstrings consist of three muscles that have the same action: the Biceps Femoris, Semitendinosus and Semimembranosus. Their actions are to flex the knee joint, adduct the leg, and extend the thigh. The Quadriceps femoris is four muscles of the femur. They are the Rectus femoris, Vastus lateralis, Vastus medialis, and Vastus intermedialis. As a group (the quads) they extend the leg at the knee.
What joint helps your leg flex and extend?
The knee helps your leg flex and extend.
Which muscle that will make the knee bend when it contracts. Which muscle that will make the leg straighten at the knee when it contracts. which of that two muscle is a lexor and an extensor?
The flexor would be the hamstring, and gastrocnemius, which bend/flex the knee. The quadriceps, are extensors, which straighten/extend the knee.
