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Lelu [443]
4 years ago
7

If you have a muscle that has atrophied, the muscle would be __________.

Health
2 answers:
joja [24]4 years ago
4 0
The muscle would be B. shrunken
Elan Coil [88]4 years ago
3 0

Answer: (B) Shrunken

Explanation:

  When the muscle atrophied, then it is the process of loss of mass of the skeletal muscle. The muscle atrophy is mainly caused by the malnutrition, aging and due to the lack of physical activities. The muscle atrophy lead various types of disability in the body and also cause weakness in the body muscles.

 When the muscles has atrophied them the muscles get shrunken and due to this it is difficult to move the muscles of arms and legs. It results into the lack of mobility in the body muscles.

Therefore, Option (B) is correct.    

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