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Flexor
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What type of muscle bends joint?
Flexor
What type for muscle bends a joint?
The type of muscle that bends a joint is called a flexor muscle. Flexor muscles contract to decrease the angle between two bones at a joint, facilitating movements like bending the elbow or knee. These muscles work in opposition to extensor muscles, which increase the angle at a joint.
What joint bends the arm?
The joint between the humerus and the ulna bends the elbow.
What muscle bends your knee?
The quadriceps muscle helps straighten and extend the leg and the hamstring helps bend the knee.
What type of joint strengthens a muscle?
bicept
How do muscles work antagonistically?
They're referring to opposite motions, if a muscle bends a joint - it's antagonist straightens it out.
What type of muscle straightens a joint?
extensor
What is the type of muscle contraction that produces movement in a joint and allows the muscle to shorten?
By tensing.
What contracts to extends or straighten the limb at the joint?
This type of muscle contracts to bend a limb at a joint
Muscle that bends body?
Spine. Bone, not muscle.
A muscle that bends part of your body is called?
A flexor muscle.
What kind of nerve goes from the spinal cord and bends the forearm?
The type of nerve that goes from the spinal cord to the muscle which bends the forearm is name the 'triceps branchii muscle'. This is a fairly large muscle on the back of the upper limb of one of many vertebrates. Hope this is useful! Dr. Lav
