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  2. Anatomical terms of muscle - Wikipedia

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    Bipennate muscle is stronger than both unipennate muscle and fusiform muscle, due to a larger physiological cross-sectional area. Bipennate muscle shortens less than unipennate muscle but develops greater tension when it does, translated into greater power but less range of motion. Pennate muscles generally also tire easily.

  3. Muscular system - Wikipedia

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    The muscular system is an organ system consisting of skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle. It permits movement of the body, maintains posture, and circulates blood throughout the body. [1] The muscular systems in vertebrates are controlled through the nervous system although some muscles (such as the cardiac muscle) can be

  4. Mikhail Suslin - Wikipedia

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    Mikhail Suslin was born on November 15, 1894, in the village of Krasavka, the only child of poor peasants Yakov Gavrilovich and Matrena Vasil'evna Suslin. [1] From a young age, Suslin showed a keen interest in mathematics and was encouraged to continue his education by his primary school teacher, Vera Andreevna Teplogorskaya-Smirnova.

  5. Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of the University of ...

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    Bruno de Bessé (2002), "École de traduction et d'interprétation de l'Université de Genève", Traduire: Revue française de la traduction (in French), no. 192, pp. 53– 67 Louis Truffaut (1980), "L'École de traduction et d'interprétation de l'Université de Genève", Cahiers européens - Europäische Hefte - Notes from Europe (in French ...

  6. Biceps - Wikipedia

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    The biceps brachii muscle is the one that gave all muscles their name: it comes from the Latin musculus, "little mouse", because the appearance of the flexed biceps resembles the back of a mouse. The same phenomenon occurred in Greek, in which μῦς, mȳs, means both "mouse" and "muscle". [citation needed]

  7. Levator labii superioris alaeque nasi muscle - Wikipedia

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    The levator labii superioris alaeque nasi muscle (occasionally shortened alaeque nasi muscle) is, translated from Latin, the "lifter of both the upper lip and of the wing of the nose". The muscle is attached to the upper frontal process of the maxilla and inserts into the skin of the lateral part of the nostril and upper lip. [ 1 ]

  8. Language interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Interpreting is translation from a spoken or signed language into another language, usually in real time to facilitate live communication. It is distinguished from the translation of a written text, which can be more deliberative and make use of external resources and tools.

  9. Core stability - Wikipedia

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    The body's core region is sometimes referred to as the torso or the trunk, although there are some differences in the muscles identified as constituting them. The major muscles involved in core stability include the pelvic floor muscles, transversus abdominis , multifidus , internal and external obliques , rectus abdominis , erector spinae ...