Unipennate muscle

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Unipennate muscle
A, fusiform; B, unipennate; C, bipennate; 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, 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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• unipennate at eMedicine Dictionary

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