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What is it called when a muscle 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 is a muscle that causes a joint to straighten when it contracts?
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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
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.
Which muscle relaxes when arm is strightened?
The bicep muscle. The tricep contracts to straighten the arm as the bicep relaxes.
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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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.
What muscle causes a joint to straigten when it contracts?
your triceps
What is it called when a muscle contracts involuntary?
Spasm
What happens to your biceps muscle when you straighten your elbow?
It either expands or contracts depending on which way you're bending your elbow.
