Pennate
(noun)
A feather shaped muscle with fascicles that attach obliquely (at an angle) to a central tendon.
Examples of Pennate in the following topics:
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How Skeletal Muscles Are Named
- The anatomical arrangement of skeletal muscle fascicles can be described as parallel, convergent, pennate, or sphincter.
- In Pennate muscles, the tendon runs through the length of the muscle.
- If all the fascicles of a pennate muscle are on the same side of the tendon, the pennate muscle is called unipennate.
- If the central tendon branches within a pennate muscle, the muscle is called multipennate.
- The four types of muscle; parallel (fusiform and non-fusiform), circular, convergent and pennate (uni, bi and multi).