ANTAGONISTIC MUSCLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does antagonistic muscle mean? 

• ANTAGONISTIC MUSCLE (noun)
  The noun ANTAGONISTIC MUSCLE has 1 sense:

1. (physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another

  Familiarity information: ANTAGONISTIC MUSCLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTAGONISTIC MUSCLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Context example:

the biceps and triceps are antagonistic muscles

Hypernyms ("antagonistic muscle" is a kind of...):

muscle; musculus (one of the contractile organs of the body)

Domain category:

physiology (the branch of the biological sciences dealing with the functioning of organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "antagonistic muscle"):

agonist (a muscle that contracts while another relaxes)

antagonist (a muscle that relaxes while another contracts)