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it flexes and rotates the head

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Q: What does the sternocleidmastoid muscle move?
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What are action in using the sternocleidmastoid muscle?

Individually rotation of the head to the opposite side. Together , flexion of the neck.


Is the sternocleidmastoid bone your collar bone?

The clavicle is referred to as the collar bone. The sternocleidomastoid is the muscle that starts at the mastoid process behind your ear and connects between your collar bone and sternum, giving you the ability to move your head up and down.


How is striated muscle and smooth muscle related?

they relate because they dont move. ivoluntary muscle means that they dont move. the smooth muscle doesnt move at all only the skeletal muscle does.


How do you make a voulontary muscle move?

To move a voluntary muscle, you just want to do it. When you want to walk, the nervous system sends a signal to the brain and the skeletal muscle to move your legs. So you are making your leg move by voluntary muscle, which is skeletal muscle.


How do you move your muscles?

When you want to move a muscle, your brain sends a message out to the muscle you want to move, and the muscle sends a message back to your brain that your moving it and where.


Muscle contracts to move?

the muscles and the bone work together and attached


To help you move skeletal muscle if attached to?

To help you move, skeletal muscle is attached to


What muscle that move and work without your control?

your heart is the muscle that you cant move yourself


Do both bones attached to a muscle move?

The bones itself do not move, but it's the muscle that moves it.


What are the main function of the muscle?

the muscle are to move the bone.


What is the meaning of the idiom never move a muscle?

Someone so lazy that they will not even move a muscle to help out.


When you say voluntary muscle what does this mean?

The muscle that you move intentionally