pennate

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Their goal was to better understand the three-dimensional dynamics of fascicles during stretching, particularly in pennate muscles.

From Science Daily • Dec. 6, 2023

In some pennate muscles, the muscle fibers wrap around the tendon, sometimes forming individual fascicles in the process.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Due to this design, the muscle fibers in a pennate muscle can only pull at an angle, and as a result, contracting pennate muscles do not move their tendons very far.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

However, because a pennate muscle generally can hold more muscle fibers within it, it can produce relatively more tension for its size.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The foliaceous expansions of osmotic growths are formed by colonies of cells or vesicles disposed in regular lines, which may present various patterns of innervation, parallel, palmate, or pennate.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane