Unipennate muscle
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| A, fusiform; B, unipinnate; C, bipinnate; P.C.S., physiological cross-section. | |
| Latin | musculus semipennatus, musculus unipennatus |
| Gray's | subject #102 361 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | m_22/12550683 |
In some muscles (e. g., the Peronei) the fibers are oblique and converge, like the plumes of a quill pen, to one side of a tendon which runs the entire length of the muscle; such muscles are termed unipennate.
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