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What are antagonistic muscles? Give one example.


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It's basically a muscle that opposes the action of another. Biceps and triceps are antagonistic muscles. A muscle that acts as the opposing force in contraction or relaxing of a muscle. A example of this is the the contraction of the biceps, where the triceps would be the antagonistic muscles.

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Muscles transfer force to bones through tendons. In an antagonistic muscle pair as one muscle contracts the other muscle relaxes or lengthens. ... The muscle that is contracting is called the agonist and the muscle that is relaxing or lengthening is called the antagonist. One example is tricep
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