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  2. Muscle architecture - Wikipedia

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    The parallel muscle architecture is found in muscles where the fibers are parallel to the force-generating axis. [1] These muscles are often used for fast or extensive movements and can be measured by the anatomical cross-sectional area (ACSA). [3] Parallel muscles can be further defined into three main categories: strap, fusiform, or fan-shaped.

  3. Anatomical terms of muscle - Wikipedia

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    For example, the fibularis muscles. Bipennate muscles consist of two rows of oblique muscle fibres, facing in opposite diagonal directions, converging on a central tendon. Bipennate muscle is stronger than both unipennate muscle and fusiform muscle, due to a larger physiological cross-sectional area. Bipennate muscle shortens less than ...

  4. Fusiform - Wikipedia

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    Fusiform bacteria (spindled rods, that is, fusiform bacilli), such as the Fusobacteriota; Fusiform cell (biology) Fusiform face area, a part of the human visual system which seems to specialize in facial recognition; Fusiform gyrus, part of the temporal lobe of the brain; Fusiform muscle, where the fibres run parallel along the length of the muscle

  5. Rectus femoris muscle - Wikipedia

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    All four parts of the quadriceps muscle attach to the patella (knee cap) by the quadriceps tendon. The rectus femoris is situated in the middle of the front of the thigh; it is fusiform in shape, and its superficial fibers are arranged in a bipenniform manner, the deep fibers running straight (Latin: rectus) down to the deep aponeurosis.

  6. Skeletal muscle - Wikipedia

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    A muscle fiber for example in the human biceps with a length of 10 cm can have as many as 3,000 nuclei. [25] ... These variations are seen in fusiform, ...

  7. Psoas major muscle - Wikipedia

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    The psoas major (/ ˈ s oʊ. ə s / or / ˈ s oʊ. æ s /; from Ancient Greek: ψόᾱ, romanized: psóā, lit. 'muscles of the loins') is a long fusiform muscle located in the lateral lumbar region between the vertebral column and the brim of the lesser pelvis.

  8. Six packs, bulging biceps and when muscles are 'just for show'

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    Bodybuilders, for example, focus on size, meaning "they'll work high reps and low weight until muscle failure to break down the muscle fibers so that they'll grow back bigger and stronger," Leicht ...

  9. Muscle - Wikipedia

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    fusiform, short (<0.4 mm) ... Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue. Muscle tissue gives skeletal muscles the ability to contract.