- vertebrates:
skeletal muscle,
cardiac muscle, and
smooth muscle.
Muscle tissue gives skeletal muscles the
ability to contract.
Muscle tissue contains special contractile...
- In
human anatomy, the
supinator is a
broad muscle in the
posterior compartment of the forearm,
curved around the
upper third of the radius. Its function...
-
femur to end in a tendon. This
tendon curves anteriorly to join the
tendons of the
gracilis and
semitendinosus muscles in the pes anserinus,
where it inserts...
- However,
smooth muscle tissue tends to
demonstrate greater elasticity and
function within a
larger length-tension
curve than
striated muscle. This ability...
- minimus, medius, and
maximus are
muscles that
arise from the
gluteal lines. The
anterior gluteal line is the
middle curved gluteal line on the hip bone....
- muscles, this
helps maintain a
normal posture.
Resting muscle tone
varies along a bell-shaped
curve. Low tone is
perceived as "lax, flabby, floppy, mushy...
- The
forgetting curve hypothesizes the
decline of
memory retention in time. This
curve shows how
information is lost over time when
there is no attempt...
-
auricula or
outer ear:
anterior auricular muscle superior auricular muscle posterior auricular muscle The
superior muscle is the
largest of the three, followed...
-
lower fibers of
which curve inferomedially (medially and downward), and are inserted,
together with
those of the
internal oblique muscle, into the
crest of...
- one or more
joint contractures have
abnormal fibrosis of the
muscle tissue causing muscle shortening, and
therefore are
unable to
perform active extension...
