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Editor Ahmed and Ali wondered whether it is the oblique eye muscles or the superior or inferior recti that adduct the eye.
Your back and hip muscles join in to assist your abs in holding your torso still as your legs move.
Feel the isometric engagement of core muscles from your upper abs down through your quads.
This initially affects the muscles of the buttocks and legs, and causes a characteristic waddle when walking.
She also gives exercises for the deep abdominal muscles to stabilize the back and pelvic girdle.
Remember that abdominals are muscles, just like triceps, biceps, pecs and lats.
More advanced students use their abdominals and thigh muscles to keep their legs extended.
In the shoulder girdle, the serratus anterior and pectoralis minor muscles contract to abduct the scapula on the up phase.
His principal difficulties are limited use of his hands, and severe tightness of the hamstrings and the abductor muscles in his thighs.
The abductor hallucis muscle is the largest and most superficial of the intrinsic great toe muscles lying on the medial border of the sole.
This relaxes muscles in the walls of blood vessels and reduces blood pressure.
I get up and stretch out my stiff muscles and take the bookmark and put it in the book on the page I was reading.
The quadratus femoris and obturator externus muscles appear for the first time in this section.
The barbell squat involves all four muscles of the quadriceps group, located on the front of the thigh.
Bilateral thigh pain or weakness with atrophy of the iliopsoas, quadriceps, and adductor muscles also may be present.
You also use lower-body muscles including your quadriceps, hip flexors and gluteus maximus.
The devices might allow quadriplegics to move limbs again by sending signals from the brain to various muscles.
We should be able to tell the size of his average step, how his chest muscles worked, and if he was truly a quadruped or if he was bipedal.
Because inactivity weakens the back muscles, pain sufferers should stay active, but it is sometimes easier said than done.
Your veins will stick out like a garden hose and your muscles will be jacked up beyond belief.
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The jogging was intended to provide an easy warm up activity that also prepared the muscles for stretching.
Basically, the warm-down is intended to relieve your muscles of the stress that's has been put on them for the last X amount of time.
He was wearing all black, his shirt clinging onto his body showing of muscles.
He had a mushroom-cut of jade-green hair, sky blue eyes, a tan skin tone, and some strong muscles.
Weeks of training on the quarterdeck had firmed the muscles, but minds were too easily seduced by the proffered friendship.
To determine the severity of dyspnea, carefully observe respiratory effort, use of accessory muscles, mental status, and ability to speak.
Azrael had jammed on the brakes, sending the automobile into a short skid forward, the sudden movement tensing his new muscles and flesh quickly.
During the off-season, you have to work on your muscles to prevent wastage.
Motor neurone disease affects the nerves to all the muscles in the body and victims gradually waste away.
As I look at my flabby body and my wasted muscles it is truly amazing that it managed to run 26.2 miles just 52 weeks ago.
Whereas arms and legs have more muscles than segments, the jaws and tongues of anurans are composed of relatively few muscles.
He raised his hand, muscles flowing in and out of place like a water clock resetting itself.
The muscles joining the hyoid bone to the jaw should be relaxed so that the larynx is pulled forward and upwards.
The heart rate and breathing quickens, muscles become tense and senses become heightened.
Combined with strong jaw muscles and gill covers that assist in forcefully expelling a stream of water, the mouth acts like a water pistol.
His mind quiets, his muscles begin to un-knit, and his posture resumes something closer to normal rather than poised and defensive.
All the muscles in my legs are aching, some six hours after finishing, which can't be good.
Magnesium can help keep muscles supple and prevent aches and pains, and may also lower the risk of osteoporosis.
I still get aches and pains in my muscles but what could have happened when the car fell just doesn't bear thinking about.
Common symptoms include cramps in the legs, and aches and pains in the muscles, headaches and eye pains.
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Does your child mention headaches, neck aches, achy strained muscles, low back pain, muscle spasm, or tingling hands?
A common sprain injury is a torn Achilles tendon, which connects the calf muscles to the heel.
This combination will challenge your balance, firm the glutes and thighs, and stretch the Achilles tendons and shin muscles.
Poor training routines can contribute to soft tissue injuries such as those to Achilles tendons, hamstrings and calf and adductor muscles.
Lower your heels at a slow to moderate speed until you feel a strong stretch in your Achilles tendons and calf muscles.
Think of a runner with tight calf muscles and a tight Achilles tendon running up a hill.
She stood up and began to pace up and down, jerkily, as though her muscles hadn't been used for a long time.
People who were weak were given hard physical exercises to do to build up their muscles.
We rely on our muscles to walk, lift objects and climb stairs. However, in space muscles become weaker when there is no gravity to overcome.
A greater range of motion is also important for overcoming or balancing the usually more developed pectoral muscles.
He used to peel down to his jockstrap, muscles glistening, sly grin flashing, while firing cryptic answers at the media, which he loathed.
The nerve supply to the muscles of the forearm and hand is provided by the radial, median, and ulnar nerves.
This technique combines Swedish massage, acupressure, and deep strokes along your muscles.
I notice his erect bearing, his poker face, only his moving cheek muscles betray that this man is under great tension.
In addition to being held together by ligaments, synovial joints are also stabilized by the muscles around the joints.
The exercise will move stiff shoulder joints and stretch muscles in the waist.
Then follow with some easy stretching to warm the joints, muscles and connective tissue.
The long claws, strong leg and shoulder muscles of these bears are well adapted for digging dens and food.
Is it the oblique eye muscles or the superior or inferior recti that adduct the eye?
As part of his strength regimen, he works his peroneal muscles and his adductors.
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Your upper hip muscles and adductors get a challenging workout as well, from stabilizing your standing leg.
The brute wore a white, sleeveless shirt tight against his large muscles and a ragged vest over it.
David stood up straight, groaning for a moment at the strain put on his calf muscles.
Penelope, 30, also admitted she is so impressed with her new muscles she can't stop admiring them.
The occasional high-rep set, however, is an excellent tool for jump-starting a stalled routine and turning up the heat on lukewarm muscles.
As the man got to his feet, firm muscles were outlined beneath the jumpsuit's sleeves.
The reason for that is that adrenalin will smooth or relax the muscles in the lungs.
Chen recalled that when she attempted to grip the juts in the wall, both her leg and arm muscles started to tremble.
Some aerobic activity will warm the muscles up and get them ready to stretch.
It enables such animals as kangaroos to run faster than their muscles alone can take them.
Crouching at opposite sides of a clay-floored ring, muscles taut and bodies glistening with sweat, the two sumo wrestlers stare each other down.
With nicely-toned muscles Rahul Dev was the one who attracted maximum whistles, catcalls and applause, more than even the women models.
It may also be the site of projection of proprioceptive afferents from the respiratory muscles and chest wall.
Her shadow flickered across the wall behind her, tail lashing in disquiet, inhuman muscles shifting as she moved.
Proteins like white meat, fish, beans, nuts and seeds also help build and maintain muscles as extra muscle will help fight off infections.
Mix eucalyptus or rosemary oil with almond oil, ensuring that it remains strongly scented, and massage into muscles until you feel a warm glow.
The sternum, or breastbone, bears a prominent keel where the flight muscles attach.
Leo Durant could feel the muscles in his arms complain as he forced himself to swim in powerful strokes.
Different swimming strokes target different parts of the body, while the buoyancy of the water cushions muscles and joints.
Pelvic floor exercises are the best way to help strengthen the pelvic floor muscles.
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Women who leak urine may have better control of these muscles by doing pelvic muscle exercises called Kegel exercises.
If you have weak pelvic floor muscles, your doctor might want you to do special exercises called Kegel exercises.
Once you have learned to isolate those muscles, perform Kegel exercises in five sets of 10 per day to strengthen them.
These sites give details about Kegel exercises that are supposed to strengthen the muscles down there.
There is a plot, and it is brilliant, with the urgent melodrama that exercises the neglected readerly muscles.
The most common are the basic Kegel exercises, which involve contracting your pelvic-floor muscles.
They are so agile when they move, thanks to their abundance of elastic muscles.
The agonist and antagonist muscles work in concert to create muscular balance in the human body.
These athletes have such great-looking rears because their sport effectively targets the gluteal muscles.
Tai Chi Wu Style is a craft that includes gentle stretching and breathing exercises that will aid balance, co-ordination and relax muscles.
I could tell by looking at him that he also had muscles under his tee shirt and khakis.
According to his mother, his liver, kidneys and muscles then began to break down.
The neat, putty-coloured ribbing of the pectoral muscles forms two perfect wings over the ribcage.
The tendon is attached to the back of the heel and is pulled by two muscles in the calf.
Over the years, his muscles withered, his bones thinned, and he suffered repeated bouts of infection and life-threatening complications.
Prolonged boozing can actually eat away at a man's body, leaving his wedding tackle withered, his muscles punier and his bones weaker.
This is stored in the form of glycogen in the liver and muscles for later use as a body fuel, at which time it is reconverted into glucose.
He sprints away again, muscles bunching under the glossy black coat, working off an energy that she is denied.
Mihra took the left group, with her father and with Shanshi, feeling Jare's muscles bunch and stretch with released energy.
There was a slight smile on his face and I could see his muscles bunching underneath his blazer.
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His muscles bunched as his fur stood on end, and I could see that he was readying him self to leap.
His powerful muscles bunched, tensing up and readying themselves to deliver a payload of suffering and torture.
My muscles bunched up and my whole left arm ached abominably for a while, but it went no further than that.
My muscles bunched up, too, as I lifted myself into the aperture, but I didn't have any fat to bunch up with it.
His muscles bunched, his blood went thick, his bones seemed to grow, and his skin became solid stone.
The captain, his eyes becoming steely, his gaze carefully directed ahead, stood silent a long moment, his jaw muscles bunching.
In height, he came up to her waist, and muscles rippled beneath the thick covering of dark fur.
The rectus femoris, a long muscle that runs straight down the front of the thigh, is one of the major muscles of the quadriceps.
The rectus femoris runs straight down the front of your thigh and, ideally, should protrude farther than any of your other quad muscles.
He was wearing a tight black shirt that showed off his nice abs and muscles.
The liver, one of the more versatile organs, recycles the lactic acid by converting it back to glucose for reuse by the muscles and other organs.
The muscles tighten and narrow, causing the lining to swell, redden and produce mucus, making breathing difficult.
I wonder at what point does knowledge in my brain become encoded within my muscles.
His fingers kneaded the tense muscles of her shoulders but it did very little to relax her.
Some of our co-passengers would head for the spa where the expert masseuse would knead their knotted muscles.
Massage therapists knead patients' muscles and other soft tissues with their hands.
During the Watsu treatment, you float in the arms of your massage therapist, who kneads your muscles and stretches your arms and legs.
She was where she felt the safest and Logan kneaded her sore muscles expertly.
By applying pressure to and kneading these tissues, the massage therapist stretches and realigns the muscles, leaving them more flexible.
My hands move, stroking down his neck and across his shoulders and back, squeezing and kneading the muscles there.
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Doctors explained that children's nerves and muscles have strong regenerative abilities, and the girl should be able to walk in the future.
From a seated position, curl one dumbbell up, feeling the muscles in your arm bunch up in a strong, searing knot as you reach the top and pause.
I squeeze her muscles once more, surprised at how the knot has completely vanished.
Then his hands began to work into Jake's muscles gently and slowly working out knots and tension.
Her fingers dug expertly into the knotted muscles of my shoulders, pummelled my back, massaged the tension out of my neck.
He felt her hands close gently on his shoulders, kneading his tired, knotted muscles.
After about 10 minutes, I felt muscles knotted from a 12-week training schedule start to loosen up.
She went to the bathroom to run a hot bath to help release what she thought was knotted muscles.
He seemingly did not notice, so she put her hands on his shoulders and began kneading his knotted muscles.
I quit talking as his hands began to knead my tired, knotted muscles and one by one, I felt them all begin to slacken.
Frank exhaled, feeling a lessening of the tension that had been knotting his stomach muscles all week.
Soothe your knotted muscles by applying a heating pad to the back of your neck or shoulders for from ten minutes to an hour.
Stretching out her sore and knotted muscles, she slowly rose from her blanket.
By following these tips, you'll find your muscles will grow bigger and stronger before you know it.
The walker's muscles must do this amount of work, to replace the lost kinetic energy, in every step.
The muscles in his jaw were working furiously as he clenched and unclenched his fingers.
House says the newest research is in repairing muscles after workouts and events.
Recoil management is controlled by the muscles of the forearms, wrists and hands in isometric opposition.
Excessive or repeated use of the muscles that straighten the wrist can cause injury to the tendons, leading to tennis elbow.
The older muscles with artificially activated satellite cells had a regenerative ability comparable to that of younger muscle.
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They can also improve your posture and strengthen your abdominal muscles for labor and delivery.
Intense training tears muscle fibers and depletes muscles of essential amino acids that are needed to help regulate metabolism.
As your muscles begin to feel the burn, the body goes into buffer mode, and you release the excess lactate as carbon dioxide as you breathe.
The effect of this is too gradually calm down the muscles but also to help the removal of lactic acid from the muscle tissues.
Conner rose and stretched, his lupine muzzle gaping wide in a colossal yawn, the muscles rippling across his broad back.
It may slip back into the body when lying down or when the local muscles are relaxed.
After stretching my limbs as far as they could go, I completely relaxed my muscles, snuggled with my pillows and drifted back to sleep.
Many things may cause a child to be unable to relax their sphincter muscles when trying to urinate.
It was still something that you used for improving your circulation and relaxing your muscles.
It relaxes the muscles and joints while strengthening your body from within.
In the next few months Jacob will need to have a new leg brace cast and is in line for Botox injections to relax the muscles in his leg and hand.
The treatment involves soft tissue work, relaxing the muscles and manipulating the neck and back.
Chamomile, lime flower, valerian, hops or passion flower all have relaxant properties and can be given to calm nerves and relax tense muscles.
It should be noticed that contraction of the smooth muscles results in relaxation or detumescence.
Junctin is an important membrane protein that can influence the contraction and relaxation of the heart muscles when it merges with calcium ions.
The rhythmic breathing and the relaxed state of the muscles are interpreted by the brain as conducive to a calm frame of mind.
This relaxed posture allows her to concentrate on contracting her abdominal muscles with maximum intensity.
I squeezed as much water out as my relaxed and weakened muscles would allow, took out the plug and stepped out of the tub.
The Captain continuing to massage her tensed muscles and relaxation once again gave relief to the few lingering spasms.
She watched Wolf with pleasure as he chewed, his jaw muscles thrown into relief by the light of the cookfire.
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Suppression of motor output to pharyngeal dilator muscles during non-REM and REM sleep promotes airway closure.
That Leonardo rendered the muscles so evidently demonstrates that he wanted their position, interrelation, and shape to be easily understood.
However, the reps go up dramatically for endurance-oriented muscles such as calves and abs.
As the name implies, the at bar is primarily used when training the lats and other back muscles in the form of pull-downs.
Your lats are large fan-shaped muscles that go from your armpits to your hips and from your torso's outer border to your spine.
Continue on to the hamstrings, glutes, abs, forearms, biceps, triceps, shoulders, pecs, lats, traps, neck, jaw muscles and forehead muscles.
He rattles off a host of muscles they work, including lats, biceps, rear delts, rhomboids, triceps and brachialis.
Contract your lats and midback muscles to bring your elbows back, pulling the handles toward you.
More repetitions using less weight defines muscles without creating bulk.
After showering, massage your muscles with a relaxant body oil.
Spinal muscular atrophy makes muscles waste away and is incurable.
The superior rectus and inferior rectus muscles abduct the eye.
She gently kneaded his knotted muscles as she spoke to their son.
It also enhances your gripping power, and helps to strengthen muscles that are used in lifting boxes and other heavy items that you may encounter during household chores.
In a traditional abdominoplasty, an incision is made along the bikini line from hip to hip, the loose skin is removed, the muscles are tightened and the incision is sealed.
Eyes red and prison muscles bulging, a tattooed white man behind me jumped to his feet from a crouch and swatted me aside.
The relaxed muscles allow them to empty the bladder this way.
But when I pulled her toward me to comfort her and tell her that I was sorry, she instinctively flexed her muscles to deflect me.
The lower jaw is the primary site of force transmission from the body and jaw muscles to the jaws, in mouth opening and, to a lesser extent, jaw closing.
The two went to work on her hamstrings, abdominals and back muscles.
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His precise features were hidden beneath the caliginous atmosphere of the night, but I could see by the distant lights that he was a tall, willowy figure with light muscles.
Gym rats from the east to the west coast prefer tank tops because they allow for complete range of motion and allow gym buffs to admire their flexed muscles at all times.
When you chew gum, the repetitive movement of your jaw puts added tension on the muscles and joints where your jawbone meets your skull, Urbaniak says.
It relaxes the dorsal muscles and goes down to the lower back to alleviate the pain many feel after hours of sitting up and working on a computer.
If you use your wrist and elbow more than the rest of the arm, try to spread the load so that the larger muscles of the shoulder and upper arm work too.
The following exercises are for stretching and warming up the muscles before shooting and for stretching and cooling down the muscles after shooting.
Enormous temporal fossae for very strong jaw muscles, formed by just one of the reptilian jaw muscles, which has now become the mammalian masseter.
This works by strengthening the core postural muscles of the body, rebalancing the body and bringing it into correct alignment which leads to a longer, leaner body.
The depth and rate of breathing are controlled by special centres in the brain, which influence the nerves that cause contraction and relaxation of the muscles of respiration.
Get your muscles swelling with these nine kick-ass fitness vacations.
The security guard wears a black suit and black V-neck that hardly contain his bulging muscles.
Think of him as a kind of Cecil Rhodes in a loincloth and with bulging muscles.
He gave me a big high five, and started talking about my biceps and muscles.
During a massage, your practitioner kneads your skin, muscles and tendons in an effort to relieve muscle tension and stress and promote relaxation.
I moved him from one shoulder to the other, trying to get rid of the ache in the muscles.
Electricity is also used to stimulate tense and knotted muscles.
While you recline, this amazing chair does wonderful things to your body and you start feeling all that stiffness disappearing as knotted muscles begin relaxing.
Continual aching muscles can also be eased by mixing six drops each of eucalyptus and lavender oil together and then massaging the oil blend into the painful area.
For the entire duration of the hours I spent inside San Pedro I noticed my abdominal muscles remained perpetually clenched.
The Englishman, also 22 years of age, seemed broader, taller, his muscles more pronounced and his expression meaner, next to Simpson's pallid wiriness.
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They all look like plastic action figures with bulging muscles for the male characters and absurdly exaggerated upper bodies for the female characters.
Just imagine the consequences of a kinesiologist isolating specific muscles and selectively injecting designer genes into those muscles to maximize their function.
Pectoral muscles and lats can push an enormous amount of weight through a great range of motion, which means they, too, are more directly fatigued.
As a result, caffeine dilates your pupils, speeds your heart rate, constricts your blood vessels, raises your blood pressure, and tightens your muscles.
Kegel exercises have long been recommended for women with urinary incontinence or women looking to strengthen their pelvic muscles following childbirth.
Kegel exercises, in which you strengthen your pelvic floor muscles by contracting them, are the best treatment for stress incontinence, says Hudson, a naturopath.
Stiff muscles and raw skin make basic movements extremely difficult.
Turns out it is Kinesio tape, a stretchy cotton tape designed by a Japanese chiropractor to support injured muscles.
A special two-storey extension has been built on to the family's semi, complete with a special exercise bike to help aid her recovery and strengthen her muscles.
They have not even the solace of big muscles and the solidarity of unions from which to construct their identities and with which to salve their bruised egos.
She performs a solo of impossible postures, in which she acquits herself with aplomb, but which leaves the spectator's mind and muscles tensed to the point of spasm.
Here is the place to try a hot stone massage, where warm basalt stones from the desert's dry river beds are used in a deep massage to ease any knotted muscles.
And if this is a trendsetter, our action sequences are not going to have beefy people flexing their muscles or lean and steely acrobats performing somersaults anymore.
Fish, for example, pump water across their gills with their head muscles.
It was like he was led by the coen Brothers on an excavating trip to surface the most powerful of his acting muscles.
It functions during the alternating contractions of muscles on either side of the body that enable the worm to wiggle backward with a smooth wavelike motion.
Shane closed his eyes as she continued to knead his taut, sore muscles.
He continued to roll my shoulders back and massage the muscles just below my collarbone.
When he lost control over his two-wheeler once, he relaxed his muscles.
I felt muscles bunch in a surge of anger and took a deep breath.
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Smoking relaxes the sphincter muscles, so makes acid reflux more likely.
This exercise targets your lats, the largest muscles in your upper body.
His horse shifted its weight apprehensively, its muscles bunching and smoothing beneath the saddle, causing the leather to creak ever so slightly.
Post-operative physiotherapy has to be accommodative to let muscles heal.
Last week he showed us this technique where you have to make your jaw all loose and keep your mouth open wide so you don't strain so many muscles.
He bit, hard, the muscles in his jaws and neck bunching and flexing.
He sat up and stretched, slowly, feeling his sore muscles bunch.
Adian clenched his eyes closed a moment, and she saw his shoulder muscles bunch, felt the pull of her arm, and the death grip they held on each other.
This generality is especially true of muscles composed mostly of a single fiber type, as are the pectoral muscles of fast-flapping aerial fliers like ducks and alcids.
He's got tats on his giant muscles which he does not cover with a shirt.
So adipocere may be from white muscle deposits close to the red muscles.
This clownesque mouthpiece claims to cure your saggy cheeks and tired muscles after three minutes a day of use.
Muscle spindles are primarily influenced by changes in length and are responsible for reflex contraction of the skeletal muscles in response to stretching.
The distal muscles, those further away like the hands and feet, are less likely to be less affected.
The intermediate and ulnar sets of muscles are supplied by branches from the deep ramus of the radial nerve after it has passed through the supinator muscle.
During expiration, contraction of the rectus abdominis and transversus abdominis muscles draw the pubic plates dorsally, decreasing abdominal volume.
His most important work, however, was in the field of the form and function of muscles and the function of the areas of the spinal cord.
These muscles are the left anterior deltoid muscle, the right rear deltoid muscle and the right rhomboid muscle.
The rhomboids are two deep muscles of the back that are used primarily to create back tension.
During inhaling, the inspiratory muscles contract, expanding the rib cage and further increasing its volume.
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Such ocean athletes as tunas and lamnid sharks, for instance, preserve warmth in muscles that power their swimming.
They and some other fast predators like lamnid sharks have converged in highly streamlined bodies with muscles tuned for aerobic performance.
Leiomyomas are benign neoplasms of the smooth muscles, usually occurring in the uterus.
Influence of anthropometrical and geometrical parameters of the bones and muscles on musculoskeletal model of the lower limbs.
Mary Cook strained the muscles in her neck and had to have physio treatment after hooking the 100lb lemon shark in Florida.
Out now Vin Diesel gets to flex his considerable muscles again as he returns as futuristic anti-hero Riddick.
The levator muscles should never be plicated, unless an obliterative procedure is being per-formed, because of the impact on sexual function.
Physical therapy directed at strength ening the levator ani complex of muscles have demonstrated some therapeutic efficacy.
It is comprised of the levator ani muscles and the coccygeus muscles, as well as the surrounding fascia.
Planking activates the neutral spine, latissimus dorsi, abdominal muscles and gluteal muscles that help stabilize the spine.
Imbalance between these two muscles can lead to subluxation, and lateral patellar retinacular tightness can result in tilt of the patella.
The muscles, found near the ball and socket joint of the shoulder, help position the shoulder properly in its socket.
Between muscles that move extensively, it takes the form of loose areolar connective tissue and provides a degree of mechanical isolation.
The doctor is concerned about possible atrophy of the shoulder muscles.
In the bivalve shells, the muscles which close the values of the shell are called adductor muscles.
Fine the horses, with flying manes and tight lithe bodies, shoulders sweating, muscles rippling, mouths afroth.
Let the muscles be well inserted and bound together, according to the knowledge of them which is given us by anatomy.
In fact the latter are likely to develop muscles of the kind and strength that may even be a handicap to the Nth degree basketballer.
The leg is bent by the action of the flexor muscles situated on the back of the thigh, the chief of these being called the biceps of the leg.
In most bilaterians, the gut musculature and most vascular muscles derive from the mesoderm.
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Once again, there are special effects, muscles and explosions, boomity boom boom.
But these jests, and others of a similar nature, had evidently produced, at no time, any effect upon the cachinnatory muscles of the tar.
Four muscles are destined to move the os humeri, and to strengthen the capsular ligament.
Deconditioning due to decreased physical effort results in muscle loss, including heart muscles.
He didn't have puffed-up gym muscles. His strapping body had a rippling stomach, ridged like a tray of baklava.
He was six feet tall and strong, but without the gnarled gym muscles Helen hated.
The beginner will instinctively try to stick his toe straight in in a foot hold, which is very tiring on the calf muscles.
In addition, he had multiple neurofibromas distributed within the ileopsoas and gluteus muscles and subcutaneous tissues.
Kickbacks work the triceps muscle at the back of your arm. Exercising these muscles helps eliminate arm jiggle.
Abraham's appeared on the top terrace so lustworthy I can't take my eyes off him. His muscles are running with sweat.
In the days when human muscles were the only power source available aboard ship, shanties served practical functions.
Barre work is designed to warm up the body and stretch muscles to prepare for center work, where they execute exercises without the barre.
Stronger muscles on wrist can prevent wrists from being twisted at swings, while stronger shoulders increase the turning force.
They have an abundance of type I muscle fibers, enabling their muscles to work for extended periods of time.
When suckling, the mother actively splashes milk into the mouth of the calf, using the muscles of her mammary glands, as the calf has no lips.
Other important reservoirs include muscles, blood, and the spleen which all have the capacity to hold a high concentration of oxygen.
The low position of the jaw joint gave the chewing muscles great leverage, so that Plateosaurus could deliver a powerful bite.
As well as controlling some muscles and body organs, in bony fish at least, the brain stem governs respiration and osmoregulation.
Most fish move by alternately contracting paired sets of muscles on either side of the backbone.
Clams have two shells of equal size connected by two adductor muscles and have a powerful burrowing foot.
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The ligament provides tension to bring the valves apart, while one or two adductor muscles can contract to close the valves.
These observations conclude that pup muscles are less able to sustain both aerobic ATP and anaerobic ATP production during dives than adults are.
A fibrous layer deep in the breast muscles can hold the wings rigidly horizontal for gliding and soaring.
Power comes primarily from muscles, but body heat is also used to do work like warming shelters, food, or other humans.
It may directly use mechanical power from muscles, or a generator may convert energy generated by the body into electrical power.
Rodent groups differ in the arrangement of the jaw muscles and associated skull structures, both from other mammals and amongst themselves.
The Myomorpha, such as the brown rat, have enlarged temporalis muscles, making them able to chew powerfully with their molars.
This skin membrane consists of connective tissue, elastic fibers, nerves, muscles, and blood vessels.
Bats seem to make use of particularly strong venomotion, a rhythmic contraction of venous wall muscles.
This is important because these bats contract their middle ear muscles when emitting a call, so they can avoid deafening themselves.
The time interval between the call and echo allows them to relax these muscles, so they can clearly hear the returning echo.
Aside from anchoring the jaw muscles, the thickness of the crests protect their skulls from hard blows.
The kidneys and spleen are eaten once they are exposed, followed by the muscles.
These setae are attached to intrinsic parapodial muscles which act to protrude setae, or retract them, or spread them.
He compared bones and muscles of human and chimpanzee thumbs, finding that humans have 3 muscles which are lacking in chimpanzees.
Their bodies are elongated with weak, watery muscles and skeletal structures.
A second set of abdominal muscles face the opposite way and when they contract they expel air under positive pressure.
Rhythmically contract and relax the muscles around your coochie and your peehole about 50 times a day.
The fossil includes portions of the intestines, colon, liver, muscles, and windpipe of this immature dinosaur.
Crocodilians also have the functional equivalent of a diaphragm by incorporating muscles used for aquatic locomotion into respiration.

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