Fascicle Arrangements definitions Flashcards

A group of muscle fibers bound together, running the entire length of a muscle without joining end to end.

Muscle fibers run parallel to each other, allowing significant shortening but limited force due to fewer fibers.

Spindle-shaped muscle with fibers wider in the middle, allowing more force while maintaining a parallel arrangement.

Muscle with a broad origin converging at a smaller insertion, enabling strong contraction with long fascicles.

Muscle fibers arranged in a circle, surrounding openings and contracting to close them, also known as a sphincter.

Feather-like muscle fibers running at angles to a central tendon, allowing more fibers and greater force.

Muscle fibers run at an angle from one side of a tendon, allowing more force but shorter contraction lengths.

Muscle fibers extend from both sides of a central tendon, allowing more force but shorter contraction lengths.

Muscle fibers extend from a branched tendon, allowing more force but shorter contraction lengths.

The longest muscle in the body, with a parallel fascicle arrangement, allowing significant shortening.

A fusiform muscle in the upper arm, spindle-shaped, allowing more force while maintaining a parallel arrangement.

A convergent muscle of the chest with a broad origin and small insertion, enabling strong contraction.

A circular muscle surrounding the eye, contracting to close the eye opening.

A unipennate muscle in the calf, with fibers running at an angle from one side of a tendon.

A bipennate muscle of the quadriceps, with fibers extending from both sides of a central tendon.