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The state of activity or tension of a muscle beyond that related to its physical properties, that is, its active resistance to stretch. In skeletal muscle, tonus is dependent upon efferent innervation. A constant state of slight tension that serves to maintain the muscle in a state of readiness is known as tonus.
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∙ 14y agoMuscle tone or muscle tonus (not the misnomer from the fitness industry) is the sustained partial contraction that exists in all healthy skeletal muscle
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A skeletal muscle's partially contracted state that is normal even when the muscle is not in use is called?
The state of partial skeletal muscle contraction is known as tonus. Muscles of the body do not have a real state of total relaxation.
What is called a constant muscle contraction?
Tonus is the continous baseline muscle tone in the body.
What is tonus?
Tonus is muscular or body tone. Tonus is defined as the continuous contraction of a muscle in the skeleton system which aids in the return of blood to the heart.
What is tonus also called?
Muscle tone
Where is the center for muscle tonus?
spinal cord
Type of muscle that is voluntary and striated?
SKELETAL (:
What is the name of muscle's state of perpetual partial tension?
Tonus.
What muscle tissue is multinucleated?
skeletal muscles
Which muscle is not directly controlled by the autonomic nervous system?
smooth muscle, cardiac muscle and most glands
Which muscle tissue concerns with locomotion of the body as a whole?
Skeletal muscle
What are facts about a skeletal muscle cell?
A skeletal muscle cell is a cell of a skeletal muscle.
What type of muscle is the tricep muscle?
A skeletal muscle.
