Motor Units

Motor Units: Motor unit, Skeletal muscle, Excitability, Contractility, Extensibility, Elasticity, Motor neuron, Muscle fibers, All-or-none principle, Motor unit size, Twitch contraction, Latent period, Twitch summation, Temporal summation, Wave summation, Tetanus, Fused tetanus, Unfused tetanus, Frequency of stimulation, Firing rate, Size principle, Biomechanics, Anatomy and physiology

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