Sentences with phrase «fibers running parallel»

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The base consists of thousands of parallel nerve fibers running together like the grain in a piece of wood.

Fibers that run parallel to the tumor surface (bottom right) protect against cancer spreading.

Muscle spindles are sensory receptors running parallel to muscle fibers, sensitive to a change and rate of muscle lengthening.

Its parallel - oriented fibers run superior and anterior, inserting on the lower ribs and the internal oblique aponeurosis, forming a flat muscle architecture.

The parallel - oriented fibers of both muscles run inferolaterally and insert on the medial border of the scapula, forming flat quadrate muscle architectures.

The fibers of the anterior deltoid have a parallel orientation and run inferiorly from origin to insertion.

Similarly, uni-pennate muscles have muscle fascicles that run at a single angle relative the axis of force generation, although this angle is nonzero and the fibers do not run parallel to the line of force generation.