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Like all muscles, the heart needs oxygen, and during a heart attack, it can't get enough.
In order for our bodies to move, information needs to travel from the brain's grey matter, down the spinal cord, through a chain of nerve fibers called axons to our muscles.
And the more layers, the greater the insulation around the axon chains, forming a sort of superhighway for information connecting your brain to your muscles.
So while many athletes and performers attribute their successes to muscle memory, muscles themselves don't really have memory.
And duck vaginas are shaped like a clockwise spiral so that when the male inflates his long, counterclockwise coiled penis into her, and she disapproves, all she needs to do is flex her vaginal muscles and the penis just flubs out.
The engorged sinuses put pressure on the cranial arteries and veins, as well as muscles in the neck and head.
This discomfort, paired with hyper-sensitive head muscles, creates the sore, throbbing pain of a headache.
Tense muscles and inflamed, sensitive nerves cause varying degrees of discomfort in each headache.
These headaches increase the tenderness of the pericranial muscles, which then painfully pulse with blood and oxygen.
Just between your chest and abdomen is where you’ll find one of the most important muscles you probably didn't know you had: the lower esophageal sphincter, or LES.
And half a block away from janitor man, there's a group of good-for-nothings who don't know no better, waiting for janitor man with rusted bicycle chains and imitation Louisville Sluggers, and if they don't find a cent on him, which they won't, they'll just pound at him till the muscles in their arms start burning, till there's no more teeth to crack out.
And it's important to realize that not only will this make the student learn their exponents better, but it'll reinforce the right mindset muscles.
When we behave violently towards robots, specifically robots that are designed to mimic life, is that a healthy outlet for violent behavior or is that training our cruelty muscles?
And the keel-like protrusion on their sternums, where the flight muscles attach, shrinks or disappears, except in penguins, who repurpose their flight muscles and keels for swimming.
Their legs grew thick, their feet sturdy, and newly developed thigh muscles turned them into formidable runners.
Sharpening their claws on nearby surfaces kept them conditioned and ready, helped stretch their back and leg muscles, and relieve some stress, too.
So while her purring makes Grizmo an excellent nap companion, it is also possible that her purr is healing her muscles and bones, and maybe even yours, too.
It's a very old and very necessary response that sends blood and oxygen to the organs and muscles that I might need to respond quickly to a potential threat.
Instead of having a motor, which we have at the moment, you can make things called artificial muscles.
Artificial muscles are smart materials, you apply electricity to them, and they contract, or they bend or they twist.
They look like real muscles.
So instead of having a motor, you have these artificial muscles.
And you can make artificial muscles out of jelly.
They go into the batting cage and do batting practice for hours, having different types of pitches being thrown at them, hitting ball after ball as they limber their muscles, getting ready for the game itself.
Her heart muscles expanded until they couldn't function.
Your legs and hand shake as your muscles prepare for attack.
Your digestion shuts down to maximize the delivery of nutrients and oxygen to muscles and vital organs, so you get dry mouth, butterflies.
The rise in sleep-inducing chemicals, like adenosine and melatonin, send us into a light doze that grows deeper, making our breathing and heart rate slow down and our muscles relax.
I didn't understand why I had muscles.
Your brain tells your spine, tells your muscles to do something or other, and hooray, you've behaved.
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