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What type of muscle bends a joint.?

Flexor


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.


Muscle that bends body?

Spine. Bone, not muscle.


What contracts to extends or straighten the limb at the joint?

This type of muscle contracts to bend a limb at a joint


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


the type of muscle wich can only be found in the heart?

gliding joint