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| action: depresses mandible, pulls down lower lip, tenses neck skin |
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| Action: contracts individually around the eye (blinking, winking, squinting) |
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| Action: closes, purses & protrudes the lips |
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| closes jaws by elevating mandible |
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| Action: agonist in elevating the mandible |
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| Action: retraction of the mandible |
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| Action: open mouth, depress mandible, elevate hyoid bone |
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| Action: elevates hyoid bone & floor of mouth, enabling tongue to exert upper & backward pressure |
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| head & neck flexion; rotation of the head |
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| Action: elevate, depress and rotate scapula |
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| Action: agonist in arm abduction, flexion & medial rotation of humerus |
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| Action: agonist in arm flexion, adducts arm, rotates arm medially |
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| Action: prime mover to protract scapula, abduction & raising of arm (punching) |
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| Action: abduction of arm, stabilizes shoulder |
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| Action: rotates humerus laterally, stabilizes shoulder |
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| Action: medially rotates and adducts the humerus; synergist of latissimus dorsi |
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| Action: elevates rib cage during inhalation |
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| Action: depresses rib cage during exhalation |
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| Action: aids in flexion of the vertebral column; trunk rotation |
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| Action: aids in flexion of the vertebral column; trunk rotation |
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| Action: Compresses abdomen |
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| Action: flex and rotate lumbar region |
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| Action: adducts and extends arm; depresses scapula |
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| Action: agonist of inspiration; flattens to increase thoracic volume |
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| Action: elbow flexion; supination of forearm |
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| Action: agonist in forearm extension |
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| Action: flexor or forearm |
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| Flexor Digitorum Superficialis |
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| Action: flexor or wrist and middle phalanges |
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| Action: wrist flexion; abduction of hand |
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| Action: synergist in forearm flexion |
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| Action: supinates forearm |
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| Extensor carpi radialis longus |
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| Action: extends & abducts wrist |
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| Action: agonist of finger extension; abducts fingers; extends wrist |
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| Action: extends knee; flexion of thigh at the hip |
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| Action: Extends & stabilizes the knee |
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| Action: extends knee; stabilizes the patella |
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| Action: flexes, abducts & laterally rotates the thigh |
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| Action: synergist of hamstring in extension, adducts & medially rotates & flexes thigh |
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| Action: adducts, flexes & medially rotates the thigh |
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| Action: adducts, flexes and medially rotates the thigh, aids in knee flexion |
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| Action: thigh extensor; laterally rotates and abducts the thigh |
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| Action: extends thigh; flexes knee; lateral rotation of the leg |
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| Action: thigh extesion; knee flexion; medial leg rotation |
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| Action: extends thigh, flexes knee, medial rotation of leg |
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| Action: agonist in dorsiflexion; inversion of the foot |
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