MUSCLES: ACTIONS AND MOVEMENTS
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| abductor | A muscle that moves a part away from the midline or midsagittal plane of the body (raising your arm away from the body)
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| adductor | A muscle that moves a part towards the midline or midsagittal plane of the body (lowering your arm back against the body)
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| levator | a muscle that rasies a body part
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| depressor | a muscle that lowers a body part
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| flexor | a muscle that bends a limb at a joint
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| extensor | a muscle that straightens (stretches out) a limb or joint
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| supinator | a muscle that produces the motion of supination (e.g. turning the palm and forearm upward)
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| pronator | a muscle that produced motion of pronation (e.g. turning the palm and forearm downward)
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| evertor | a muscle that turns a body part outward
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| invertor | a muscle that turns a body part inward
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| rotator | a muscle that rotates or revolves a body part on its axis
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| elevation | the act of raising or lifting up a body part
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| buccinator | muscle of the cheek used to compress the cheek as occurs in whistling and blowing; the trumpeter muscle
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| masseter | the principle chewing muscle
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| risorius | muscle that draws the angle or corner of the mouth outward and upward; the laughing muscle
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