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Muscular System
Chapter 7 Anatomy and Physiology
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
10/01/2009
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A muscle whose contraction opposes an action of another muscle
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Aponeurosis

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A broad sheet of fibrous connective tissue that attaches a muscle to another muscle or connective tissue
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