Sentences with phrase «tiny muscles called»

The appendages include claws, sebaceous glands that lubricate the skin and hair, and tiny muscles called arrector pili that can make the hair stand on end (see Figure 1).

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The stones release the so - called succinic acid in tiny amounts, which accelerate wound healing, relieve muscle pain, fight throat infections and infections in the ear and stomach.

A team from the University of Buffalo has found that tiny crystal lattices called «self - assembling molecular nanosheets» expand after exposed to light, a discovery that could lead to new light - powered actuators, oscillators and other microscopic electronic components used in artificial muscles and other soft robotic systems.

Breasts have no muscle so they rely on the skin and tiny internal structures called Cooper's ligaments to provide support.

Most barre classes utilize 1 -, 2 -, or 3 - pound weights and use tiny movements called pulses to push your major muscle groups to failure (that sounds bad, but it's actually a good thing!).

With his movie - star good looks, his broad shoulders and tiny waist and diamond shaped calves, Steve was said to be «the most beautiful human to ever walk the sand of Muscle Beach,» in a book called Remembering Muscle Beach written by Harold Zinkin.

incased within each muscle fiber is a tiny little string called a «spindle fiber».