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7 Cards in this Set
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Muscle that has the major responsibility for causing a particular movement
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prime mover
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Muscles that oppose or reverse a movement
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antagonists
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help prime movers by producing the same movement or by reducing undesirable movements.
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synergists
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specialized synergists that hold a bone still or stabilize the origin of a prime mover so all the tension can be used to move the insertion bone
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fixators
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point of attachment to immovable or less movable bone
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origin
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attached to the movable bone, when it contracts it moves toward the origin
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insertion
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Muscular dystrophy
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An inherited muscle-destroying disease. Muscles enlarge due to fat and connective tissue deposit, but the muscle fibers degenerate
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