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(physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another
the biceps and triceps are antagonistic muscles
How To Use antagonistic muscle In A Sentence
- See involuntary muscles, antagonistic muscles. Biology Basic Facts
- See antagonistic muscles, involuntary muscles, voluntary muscles. Biology Basic Facts
- the biceps and triceps are antagonistic muscles
- See involuntary muscles, antagonistic muscles. Biology Basic Facts
- Matters had, broadly put, reached and remained at that stage, when in the century's last decade experimental examination of mammalian reflexes detected (1892) examples of inhibition of surprising potency and machine-like regularity, readily obtainable from the mammalian spinal cord in its action on the extensors of the hind limb; the inhibitory relaxation of the extension was linked with concomitant reflex contraction of their antagonistic muscles, the flexors. Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture
- See antagonistic muscles, involuntary muscles, voluntary muscles. Biology Basic Facts