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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.
What muscle bends the arm?
The muscle/muscles that bend your arms are called Flexor and Extensor.
What does flexor mean?
A flexor is a type of muscle that serves to bend a joint or limb when it contracts. It is responsible for bringing two body parts closer together. The main function of flexors is to facilitate movement, such as bending your elbow or knee.
What muscle is used to bend the hand at the wrist?
The wrist is bent by the wrist flexor muscles, including the flexor carpi radialis, flexor carpi ulnaris, and palmaris longus. These muscles are responsible for flexing the hand at the wrist joint.
Can you provide an example of a flexor muscle and explain its function in the human body?
An example of a flexor muscle is the biceps brachii in the upper arm. Its function is to bend the arm at the elbow joint, allowing for movements like lifting and curling.
Is tricepes flexor?
Triceps muscle is not a flexor. Triceps is an extensor of elbow joint. Biceps muscle is flexor.
Which muscle is a superficial anterior flexor muscle?
flexor digitorum superficialis
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.
What muscle bends your knee?
The quadriceps muscle helps straighten and extend the leg and the hamstring helps bend the knee.
Major spine flexor?
The major spine flexor is the rectus abdominis muscle. It runs along the front of the abdomen and helps to bend the spine forward. It is commonly known as the "abs" muscle and is important for activities like sit-ups and crunches.
How the flexor and extensor work together to move the lower wing and bend the joint between the upper and lower wing?
The flexor muscle contracts and shortens to bend the joint, moving the lower wing up towards the upper wing. The extensor muscle then relaxes to allow this movement. The coordinated action of the flexor and extensor muscles allows for controlled movement of the wings.
What term describes a muscle that bends joints such as the elbow?
Flexor.
