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Orthotics

Medical specialty that focuses on the design and application of orthoses

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Architectural gear ratio

Ratio between muscle-shortening velocity and fiber-shortening velocity

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Biarticular muscle

Muscles which cross two joints in a series

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List of skeletal muscles of the human body

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Axillary space
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In vitro muscle testing

Testing of living muscle tissue outside of an organism

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Ballistic movement

Type of muscle contraction

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Calcium-induced calcium release

Biological process

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Intrafusal muscle fiber

Skeletal muscle fibers

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Lateral force transmission in skeletal muscle

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Reciprocal inhibition

Operation of opposing sets of muscles

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Muscle architecture

Physical arrangement of muscle fibers at the macroscopic level

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Muscular system

Internal framework of the body

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Muscle tone

Continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles

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Slow-wave potential

Rhythmic electrophysiological event in the gastrointestinal tract

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Muscles of the hip

Causes movement in the hip

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Skeletal muscle pump

Muscular system aiding blood circulation

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Muscle contracture

Permanent shortening of a muscle

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Sphincter

Circular muscle that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice

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Striated muscle tissue

Muscle tissue with repeating functional units called sarcomeres

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Henneman's size principle

Principle in muscular anatomy

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Iris dilator muscle

Smooth muscle of the eye

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Hypothenar eminence

Group of three muscles of the palm

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Smooth muscle

Involuntary non-striated muscle

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Modiolus (face)

Chiasma of facial muscles

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Pennate muscle

Muscle with fascicles that attach obliquely to its tendon

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Tropomyosin

Protein

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Interossei

Muscles between certain bones

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Anterior chain

Group of muscles on the anterior of the body

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Axioappendicular muscles

Muscles that extend between the axial and (superior or inferior) appendicular skeletons

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