Muscle movement
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- stationary or immovable attachment
- origin
- movable attachment
- insertion
- Tissue that connects muscle to bone
- tendon
- movement that increases the angle of a joint and increases the distance between two bones
- extension
- movement that decreases the angle of a joint and reduces the distance between bones
- flexion
- movement of a bone around its longitudinal axis without displacement
- rotation
- movement of a limb away from the midline
- abduction
- movement of a limb toward the midline
- adduction
- combination of flexion, extension, abduction, and adduction. distal end moves in a circle
- circumduction
- movement of the palm from upward facing position to downward facing position
- pronation
- movement of the palm from a downward facing position to an upward facing position
- supination
- movement that results in the medial turning of the sole of the foot
- inversion
- movement that results in the lateral turning of the sole of the foot
- eversion
- movement of the ankle joint in a dorsal direction
- dorsiflexion
- movement of the ankle where the foot is flexed downward
- plantar flexion