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a muscle that pulls a part of your body away from its normal position, for example one that raises your arm

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the muscles in your abdomen

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the tendon that joins the muscles in the back of your lower leg to the muscles in your heel

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a muscle that pulls a part of your body back to its normal position

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the muscle between your shoulder and elbow on the front of your arm that you use when you pull things towards you

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a substance similar to bone that surrounds the joints (=places where two bones meet) in your body, or a piece of this substance

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a muscle in your eye that controls its lens

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a round flat piece of cartilage between the bones in your back

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a muscle that can move a part of your body into an upright position

the American spelling of fibre

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one of the thin pieces that form the nerves and muscles in your body

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cartilage

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a tendon behind your knee

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one of the muscles between your ribs

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a part inside your body that holds bones together or keeps organs in place

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a piece of flesh that connects one bone to another and is used for moving a particular part of your body

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one of the big lumps that you can see on someone’s arms, legs, chest etc that show that they are strong, especially because they do a lot of exercise

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the system of muscles in your body

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the large muscles in your chest. The technical name for these is pectoral muscles.

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the set of muscles inside your body that control the movements of sexual organs, between your abdomen and your pelvis

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your quadriceps

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the large muscle on the front of your thigh

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the strong substance that connects muscles to bone, or a piece of this

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stomach muscles that are very well developed

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a muscle that surrounds and controls an opening in the body, especially in the anus

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a set of body fibres that supports an organ or another body part, especially the one that holds the lens of your eye in place

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one of the parts of your body that connects a muscle to a bone

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the muscle at the back of your upper arm

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the very thin muscles inside your throat that you use for making sounds