Definition of Pennate. Meaning of Pennate. Synonyms of Pennate

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Definition of Pennate

Pennate
Pennate Pen"nate, Pennated Pen"na*ted, a. [L. pennatus feathered, winged, from penna feather, wing.] 1. Winged; plume-shaped. 2. (Bot.) Same as Pinnate.

Meaning of Pennate from wikipedia

- A pennate or pinnate muscle (also called a penniform muscle) is a type of skeletal muscle with fascicles that attach obliquely (in a slanting position)...
- Look up pinnation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pinnation (also called pennation) is the arrangement of feather-like or multi-divided features arising...
- There are several different muscle architecture types including: parallel, pennate and hydrostats. Force production and gearing vary depending on the different...
- order is named for the shape of the cell walls (or valves or frustules) of pennate diatoms, which are elongated in valve view. The valves may be linear or...
- point. It is typically used to describe the contraction properties of pennate muscles. It is not the same as the anatomical cross-sectional area (ACSA)...
- distinct shapes: a few (centric diatoms) are radially symmetric, while most (pennate diatoms) are broadly bilaterally symmetric. The unique feature of diatoms...
- runs from the frontalis muscle anteriorly to the occipitalis posteriorly. Pennate muscles, in which the muscle fibers are oriented at an angle to the line...
- The extensor digitorum longus is a pennate muscle, situated at the lateral part of the front of the leg. It arises from the lateral condyle of the tibia;...
- (Bacillariophyta)—were divided into just 2 orders, corresponding to the centric and the pennate diatoms (Centrales and Pennales; alternative names Biddulphiales and Bacillariales...
- life-cycle stages, e.g., the gametes of some green algae (Zygnematophyceae) and pennate diatoms, the spores (or dispersal phases) of some Mesomycetozoea, and the...