A Wisdom Archive on Muscle

Muscle is a contractile form of tissue. It is one of the four major tissue types, the other three being epithelium, connective tissue and nervous tissue. Muscle contraction is used to move parts of the body, as well as to move substances within the body. Muscle - Types. There are three general types of muscle: Cardiac muscle is a specialized kind of muscle found only within the heart. It cannot get tired and is "involuntary". Skeletal muscle or "voluntary muscle" is anchored by tendons ... Including:

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• Muscle - Anatomy
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• Muscle - Nervous control
• Muscle - Efferent leg
• Muscle - Afferent leg
• Muscle - Role in health and disease
• Muscle - Exercise
• Muscle - Disease
• Muscle - The strongest human muscle
• Muscle - Efficiency
• Muscle - Muscle evolution

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To dream of seeing your muscle well developed, you will have strange encounters with enemies, but you will succeed in surmounting their evil works, and gain fortune. If they are shrunken, your inability to succeed in your affairs is portended. For a woman, this dream is prophetic of toil and hardships.
 
Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller
 
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There are three general types of muscle: Cardiac muscle is a specialized kind of muscle found only within the heart. It cannot get tired and is "involuntary". Skeletal muscle or "voluntary muscle" is anchored by tendons to bone and is used to affect skeletal movement such as locomotion. It gets tired. Smooth muscle or "involuntary muscle" is found within structures such as the intestines, throat and blood vess ...

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The ciliary body is the part of the eye containing the ciliary muscle and ciliary processes. There are two sets of ciliary muscles in the eye. They are near the front of the eye, above and below the lens. They are attached to the lens by connective tissue called zonular fibers, and are responsible for shaping the lens to focus light on the retina. When the ciliary muscle relaxes, it flattens the lens which generally improves the focus for farther objects. When it contracts, the lens becomes more convex which generally i ...

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Biophysics (also biological physics) is an interdisciplinary science that applies the theories and methods of physical sciences to questions of biology. Biophysics research today comprises a number of specific biological studies, which do not share a unique identifying factor, or subject themselves to clear and concise definitions. This is the result of biophysics' relatively recent appearance as a scientific discipline. The studies included under the umbrella of biophysics range from sequence comparison to neural networ ... Including:

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• Biophysics - Famous biophysicists
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Contortion (sometimes contortionism) is an unusual form of acrobatic display which involves the dramatic bending and flexing of the human body. Contortion is often part of a circus act. In general, contortionists have unusual natural flexibility, which is then enhanced through gymnastic training. Contortion - Description. Contortion - Skills. Most contortionists are categorized as either frontbenders or backbenders, depending on the direction i ... Including:

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Spinal fusion is the most widely performed surgery for scoliosis. In this procedure bone (either harvested from elsewhere on the body, or donor bone) is grafted to the vertebrae so that when it heals, they will form one solid bone mass. This restricts spinal movement and prevents worsening of the curve, and straightens the curve as much as possible. Originally spinal fusions were done without metal implants. A cast was applied after the surgery, usually under traction to pull the curve as straight as possible and then hold it there wh ...

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Sitting for long periods can lead to the gluteal muscles atrophying through constant pressure and disuse. This may be associated with (although not necessarily the cause of) lower back pain, difficulty with some movements that naturally require the gluteal muscles, such as rising from the seated position, and climbing stairs. Some attribute severe menstrual cycles including mood swings and irritability to gluteal muscle atrophy, however, there are a vast array of known contributors to dysmenorrh ...

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Rest is the only way to completely heal a stress fracture. The average time of complete rest from the activity that caused the stress fractures is four to twelve weeks. During this time, it is advised that training errors be identified (for instance, too much, too soon) and avoided in the future. One rule of thumb is to not increase the volume of training by more than 10% from one week to the next. Rehabilitation usually consists of muscle strength training to help dissipate ...

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Contortion - Skills. Most contortionists are categorized as either frontbenders or backbenders, depending on the direction in which their spine is more flexible. Relatively few performers are equally adept at bending both frontwards and backwards. Some of the skills performed by contortionists include: Frontbending skills such as folding forward at the waist with the legs straight, or placing one or both legs behind the neck or shoulders with the knees bent (called a hu ...

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Traditional studies in biology are conducted using statistical ensemble experiments, typically using pico- to micro-molar concentrations of macromolecules. Because the molecules that comprise living cells are so small, techniques such as PCR amplification, gel blotting, fluorescence labeling and in vivo staining are used so that experimental results are observable with an unaided eye or, at most, optical magnification. Using these techniques, biologists attempt to elucidate the complex systems of interactions that give rise to the processes ...

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In the last two decades, GH has also been increasingly used for children and adults who are not severely deficient, either to enhance growth or for other reasons. Growth hormone treatment - GH treatment for other types of shortness. Many conditions besides GH deficiency cause poor growth. GH therapy has been shown to improve short-term growth in many conditions, but long-term height gains are usually poorer than those achieved when GH deficiency is the cause of shortness. Higher ("pharmacologic") doses are typically required to achieve ef ...

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Hormone treatment seems an unlikely source of social controversy, but for four decades, growth hormone has been second only to estrogens and progestins (diethylstilbestrol, contraception, abortifacients, and post-menopausal replacement) in its ability to engender challenging ethical issues. The principal controversies of the last two decades arise from the intersection of two factors: high cost and the difficulty of defining a boundary between disease and variation of normal. In other words, if GH were inexpensive, it would be no more contro ...

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Known risks of GH are few and rare. Few reasonable parents or physicians would incur a high risk of harm to a child to add a few inches to height. Most of the complications have been reported in children over 10 years of age or in adults. Though rare, the following harmful side effects have been reported during GH treatment often enough to be assumed noncoincidental. Slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) causes hip pain due to separation of the head of the femur from the shaft. Incidence in GH-treated children may be about 1 ...

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Bones are constantly attempting to remodel and repair themselves, especially during a sport where excessive stress is applied to the bone. Over time, if enough stress is placed on the bone that it is higher than that of the remodeling, a weakened site -- a stress fracture -- on the bone may appear. Muscle fatigue can also play a role in the occurrence of stress fractures. For every mile a runner runs, more than 110 tons of energy must be absorbed by the legs. Bones are not made to stand that much energy on their own and the muscles ac ...

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