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stellarik [79]
3 years ago
9

The names of muscles often indicate the action of the muscle. What does the term levator mean?

Biology
1 answer:
guajiro [1.7K]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

The right answer is B. The muscle elevates and/or adducts a region.

Explanation:

Levator muscles are the muscles use to raise any region of the body. Like levator anguli oris which elevates the corner of the mouth, levator ani which is made up of many muscle sheets of iliococcygeus, puboretalis, and pubococcygeus muscles and holds pelvic viscera in their place.

Levators costarum during breathing helps in raising the ribs, levator palpebrae superioris have function in raising the eyelids and there are so many levator muscles are present in different places in the body which helps to elevate and/or adducts a region.

Therefore, the right answer is B. The muscle elevates and/or adducts a region.

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