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When a muscle contrats what happens to its opposite muscle?

depends on which muscle but the opposite muscle sometimes contracts aswell to stabalize the joint some relaxes ...


When muscles get long what happens?

muscles relaxes


Which muscle relaxes when arm is strightened?

The bicep muscle. The tricep contracts to straighten the arm as the bicep relaxes.


What happens to the muscle as the arm moves down?

One group of muscles contracts, and the other group extends. As an arm moves down, the bicep muscle (the one that faces the front side of the body and goes from the shoulder to the elbow) relaxes. When the muscle relaxes, it goes from being contracted to elongated. This relaxation happens at the same time that the tricep muscle (the one that faces the backside of the body and goes from the shoulder to the elbow) contracts. This happens because the human body's skeletal muscles have what can be considered compliments. I say this to mean that when a muscle relaxes, there is a muscle that contracts simultaneously. Therefore, they move antagonistically to each other. This is to serve the purpose of creating specific movements that help assist in locomotion. On the molecular level of what happens when a muscle contracts and relaxes, the actin and myosin filaments in muscle fiber overlap to contract and separate to relax.


When one muscle contracts what dose the other muscle do?

Relaxes


As one muscle in a pair relaxes what does the otyher muscle do?

contract


What is the type of muscle that squeezes and relaxes without stopping?

the smooth muscle


In a muscle group the muscle that relaxes during a particular action is what?

gdg


What muscle relaxes and what muscle works?

I think what your after is called an antagonistic pair of muscles, for example the bicep and the tricep. When the bicep is contracting the tricep relaxes and when the tricep is contracting the bicep relaxes.


What is the name given to a muscle that relaxes?

antagonist.


A muscle becomes longer and thinner when it?

relaxes


What does the other muscle do when one relaxes?

It Contracts