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- the different muscle parameters such as muscle length, fiber length, pennation angle, and the physiological cross-sectional area (PCSA). Parallel and...
- pinnation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pinnation (also called pennation) is the arrangement of feather-like or multi-divided features arising...
- a smaller range of motion. When a muscle contracts and shortens, the pennation angle increases. The term "pennate" comes from the Latin pinnātus ("feathered...
- For example, the pennation angle determines the architectural gear ratio at which a pennate muscle operates. A large initial pennation angle results in...
- pennate muscles run at an angle to the axis of force generation. This pennation angle reduces the effective force of any individual fiber, as it is effectively...
- body. One particularly important aspect of gross anatomy of muscles is pennation or lack thereof. In most muscles, all the fibers are oriented in the same...
- group of burrowing lizard-like squamates, specializations include the pennation of the longissimus dorsi, the main muscle ****ociated with burrowing, to...
- ={{\text{muscle m****}} \over {\text{muscle volume}}}.} PCSA increases with pennation angle, and with muscle length. In a pennate muscle, PCSA is always larger...
- shown that sprinters have longer muscle fascicle lengths and smaller pennation angles than non-sprinters. This contributes by increasing the muscle's...
- Hurschler, H.F. Choi, A com****tional approach to calculate personalized pennation angle based on MRI: effect on motion analysis, Journal of Computer ****isted...