muscle curve

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• Muscle curve — Muscle Mus cle (m[u^]s l), n. [F., fr. L. musculus a muscle, a little mouse, dim. of mus a mouse. See {Mouse}, and cf. sense 3 (below).] 1. (Anat.) (a) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust. of Muscles of the Human Body …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Muscle — Mus cle (m[u^]s l), n. [F., fr. L. musculus a muscle, a little mouse, dim. of mus a mouse. See {Mouse}, and cf. sense 3 (below).] 1. (Anat.) (a) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust. of Muscles of the Human Body, in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Muscle contraction — See also: Twitch and Tremor Top down view of skeletal muscle Muscle fiber generates tension through the action of actin and myosin cross bridge cycling. While under tension, the muscle may lengthen, shorten, or …   Wikipedia

• Muscle memory — For the term muscle memory as related to strength training, see Muscle memory (strength training). Muscle memory has been used synonymously with motor learning, which is a form of procedural memory that involves consolidating a specific motor… …   Wikipedia

• Curve of spee — In Anatomy, the Curve of Spee (called also von Spee s curve or Spee s curvature) is defined as the curvature of the mandibular occlusal plane beginning at the tip of the lower cuspid and following the buccal cusps of the posterior teeth,… …   Wikipedia

• curve — 1. A nonangular continuous bend or line. 2. A chart or graphic representation, by means of a continuous line connecting individual observations, of the course of a physiologic activity, of the number of cases of a disease in a given period, or of …   Medical dictionary

• Transversus abdominis muscle — Infobox Muscle Name = Transverse abdominal muscle Latin = Transversus abdominis GraySubject = 118 GrayPage = 414 Caption = Muscles of the trunk. Caption2 = The Transversus abdominis, Rectus abdominis, and Pyramidalis. Origin = Iliac crest,… …   Wikipedia

• Smooth muscle tissue — Smooth muscle …   Wikipedia

• Superior pharyngeal constrictor muscle — Muscles of the pharynx and cheek …   Wikipedia

• Forgetting curve — A typical representation of the forgetting curve. The forgetting curve hypothesizes the decline of memory retention in time. A related concept is the strength of memory that refers to the durability that memory traces in the brain. The stronger… …   Wikipedia

• strength-duration curve — a graphic representation of the relationship between the intensity of an electric stimulus at the motor point of a muscle and the length of time it must flow to elicit a minimal contraction; see also chronaxy and rheobase …   Medical dictionary