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  2. Muscle architecture - Wikipedia

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    The angle of pennation will increase during contraction accompanied by an increase in thickness. Thickness is defined as the area between the aponeuroses of the muscle. A low gear ratio occurs when the contraction velocity of the whole muscle and individual fibers is approximately the same, resulting in a gear ratio of 1.

  3. Quadrivium - Wikipedia

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    From the time of Plato through the Middle Ages, the quadrivium (plural: quadrivia [2]) was a grouping of four subjects or arts—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy—that formed a second curricular stage following preparatory work in the trivium, consisting of grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

  4. Henneman's size principle - Wikipedia

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    Henneman’s size principle describes relationships between properties of motor neurons and the muscle fibers they innervate and thus control, which together are called motor units. Motor neurons with large cell bodies tend to innervate fast-twitch, high-force, less fatigue-resistant muscle fibers , whereas motor neurons with small cell bodies ...

  5. Physiological cross-sectional area - Wikipedia

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    The muscle cross-sectional area (blue line in figure 1, also known as anatomical cross-section area, or ACSA) does not accurately represent the number of muscle fibers in the muscle. A better estimate is provided by the total area of the cross-sections perpendicular to the muscle fibers (green lines in figure 1).

  6. Trivium - Wikipedia

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    The trivium is the lower division of the seven liberal arts and comprises grammar, logic, and rhetoric. [ 1 ] The trivium is implicit in De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii ("On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury") by Martianus Capella , but the term was not used until the Carolingian Renaissance , when it was coined in imitation of the ...

  7. Muscle hypertrophy - Wikipedia

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    That is hypertrophy results primarily from the growth of each muscle cell rather than an increase in the number of cells. Skeletal muscle cells are however unique in the body in that they can contain multiple nuclei, and the number of nuclei can increase. [21] Cortisol decreases amino acid uptake by muscle tissue, and inhibits protein synthesis ...

  8. Motor unit plasticity - Wikipedia

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    Resistance training has been shown to dramatically increase performance of motor units of the larger muscle groups. [2] Motor unit plasticity of the larger muscle groups is extremely important for athletes, especially those participating in high impact and fast pace sports such as track and field, martial arts, and American football.

  9. Quadratus lumborum muscle - Wikipedia

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    The quadratus lumborum muscle originates by aponeurotic fibers into the iliolumbar ligament and the internal lip of the iliac crest for about 5 centimetres (2.0 in). It inserts from the lower border of the last rib for about half its length and by four small tendons from the apices of the transverse processes of the upper four lumbar vertebrae.