synergist

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Evans had a friendly synergist at The New Yorker, where Brown serialized works by Monica Crowley, Edward Jay Epstein and other Random House authors.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2020

A synergist can also be a fixator that stabilizes the bone that is the attachment for the prime mover’s origin.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

It acts as a synergist of the gluteus medius and iliopsoas in flexing and abducting the thigh.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Explain how a synergist assists an agonist by being a fixator.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

M. adductor mandibulae, this muscle performs only the one function of adducting the lower mandible, and like M. pseudotemporalis profundus it is a synergist of that muscle.

From Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves by Merz, Robert L.