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Definition of Antagonistic muscle

1. Noun. (physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another. "The biceps and triceps are antagonistic muscles"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antagonistic Muscle

Literary usage of Antagonistic muscle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1918)
"ANTAGONISTIC MUSCULAR REACTIONS All the muscles of the body are arranged in pairs, each of which may be looked upon as the antagonistic muscle of the other. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1893)
"... or drag in the muscle could not affect the globus sufficiently to simulate the movement that might result from a relaxation of the antagonistic muscle; ..."

3. Diseases of the Eye: A Practical Treatise for Students of Ophthalmology by George Andreas Berry (1893)
"the so-called secondary contracture of the antagonistic muscle. ... When, again, there is a so-called secondary contracture of an antagonistic muscle, ..."

4. William Croone, on the Reason of the Movement of the Muscles by William ( Croone (2000)
"... equivalent force of contraction which is present in the antagonistic muscle. Thus it will be possible to meet that objection with not one reason alone. ..."

5. Therapeutic Gazette (1894)
"He prefaces his description of the operation with a very full account of the microscopic appearances in five pieces of antagonistic muscle removed by him ..."

6. Nervous diseases: Their Descriptions and Treatment. by Allan McLane Hamilton (1881)
"The antagonistic muscle is thereby subjected to the stimulation of an ascending current from the faradaic apparatus. Fig. 72. The treatment of these cases ..."

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