Usually means: Antagonistic muscles relax, others contract.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Reciprocal innervation)

noun:  René Descartes was one of the first to conceive a model of reciprocal innervation (in 1626) as the principle that provides for the control of agonist and antagonist muscles.

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