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What is a muscle that causes a joint to straighten when it contracts?
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What muscle causes a joint to straighten when it contracts?
The muscle that causes a joint to straighten when it contracts are the extensor muscles. These include the triceps that work with the biceps to extend the arm.
What a muscle that causes a joint to straighten when it contracts?
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What contracts to extends or straighten the limb at the joint?
This type of muscle contracts to bend a limb at a joint
What is a muscle that causes a joint to straighten when it conttractscontracts?
Tricep.
What is a muscle that causes a joint to straighten when contracting?
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What muscle causes a joint to straigten when it contracts?
your triceps
How do skeletal muscles work as a pair to bend and straighten the arm at the elbow?
When you bend your elbow, the biceps muscle contracts. At the same time the antagonist muscle, that is the triceps muscle relaxes in synchronized manner. Vise verse action take place, when you straighten the arm at the elbow. Triceps contracts and biceps relaxes.
Why muscles have to work in pairs?
Skeletal muscles only pull in one direction. For this reason they always come in pairs. When one muscle in a pair contracts, to bend a joint for example, its counterpart then contracts and pulls in the opposite direction to straighten the joint out again.
What causes the joint to straighten?
The right answer is StrainThat would depend on the joint. The knee joint is straightened with the quadricep muscle (thigh). And the elbow joint is straightened with the tricep muscle (back of the arm)LigamentsPerhaps extensor muscles. (ligaments function to hold joints together, they are not muscles.)
What causes a joint to move?
Joints don't have the ability to move. Joints are where two or more bones meet. One end of muscle attaches to the bone and the other end of the muscle stretches cross the joint and attaches to the bone on the other side of the joint. Muscles work in pairs, so that when one muscle contracts (the only movement that muscle can make), the other of the pair relaxes which causes movement at the joint when the bone is pulled by the muscle.
When the muscle contracts it pulls on and moves that bone at the joint?
ligament
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.
