Muscle vs Bipennate - What's the difference?
muscle | bipennate |
(uncountable) A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
(countable) An organ composed of muscle tissue.
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(uncountable, usually plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise.
* 2008 , Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in'' Nate Green, ''Built for Show , page xii
(uncountable, figurative) Strength, force.
* 2010 , Adam Quinn, US Foreign Policy in Context , page 81
* 2013 , John D. MacDonald, The Long Lavender Look , page 15
(uncountable, figurative) Hired strongmen or bodyguards.
* 1985 — , The Infinity Doctors , p 34
To use force to make progress, especially physical force.
* 1988', Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", '''' ' 47 (6): 28-34.
(medicine, anatomy, zoology) Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of a muscle, the fibres of which attach to a tendon on two sides (as a feather barbed on both sides).
* 1999 , Christopher McGowan, A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics ,
* 2007 , Neal S. Elattrache, Christopher D. Harner, Raffy Mirzayan, Jon K. Sekiya (editors), Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine ,
* 2008 , John O'Neill, Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: Anatomy and Technique ,
(botany, of leaves) Bipinnate (pinnate and having a pinnate leaflet).
* 1849 , Adrien de Jussieu, James Hewetson Wilson, The Elements of Botany ,
* 1897 , William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure ,
As adjectives the difference between muscle and bipennate
is that muscle is muscled, muscly, muscular while bipennate is (medicine|anatomy|zoology) of, pertaining to, or having the nature of a muscle, the fibres of which attach to a tendon on two sides (as a feather barbed on both sides).As a verb muscle
is .muscle
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(wikipedia muscle)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Muscle consists largely of actin and myosin filaments.
- His brow and hair and the palms of his hands were wet, and there was a kind of nervous contraction of his muscles . They seemed to ripple and string tense.
- You, Boxer, the very day that those great muscles of yours lose their power, Jones will sell you to the knacker
- The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
- The lesson to be drawn from the events of 1914, to Roosevelt's mind, was that civilization needed muscle to defend it, not just solemn words.
- It was going to take muscle to pluck Miss Agnes out of the canal.
- It was easy enough to dodge him, let him crash into the floorboards. Peltroc knew that his priority was the leader, not the hired muscle .
Derived terms
* beer muscles * cardiac muscle * gym muscles * involuntary muscle * make a muscle * * musclebound * muscle boy * muscle car * muscled * muscledom * muscle dysmorphia * muscleful * muscle in on * muscleless * muscleman * muscle relaxant * muscle shirt * musclesome * muscle tone * muscle up * muscle-up * muscled up * muscular * muscularity * musculature * muscly * skeletal muscle * smooth muscle * voluntary muscleSee also
* myology * myotomyVerb
(muscl)- He muscled his way through the crowd.
- Hensel and Wilson hit a series of leg shots simultaneously as Christian muscles between them with Quinn right on his heels.
Derived terms
* outmusclebipennate
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Adjective
(-)- It then follows that bipennate muscles generate even more force than unipennate ones of similar volume, and the force increases with the angle of pennation.
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- Beneath the deltoid lies the external rotators of the shoulders, including the bipennate infraspinatus and the teres minor (Fig. 5-20B).
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- Bipennate muscles have a central tendon with oblique insertion fibers on both sides, eg, the rectus femoris (Figure 1.3c).
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- Its bipennate leaves are composed of a slightly straightened general petiole, of four partial petioles, situated, two at the extremity of the proceeding, and convergent, two a little lower, and growing almost at right angles; each of them bearing more than twenty pairs of small horizontal petioles.
2006 Gutenberg eBook edition,
- But this Burnet Pimpinella is of a different (Umbelliferous) order, though similarly styled because its leaves are likewise bipennate .