rhomboidal: Specifically, in anatomy, said of muscles whose fibers run obliquely from the point of origin to the point of insertion, as in the so-called ‘penniform muscles’ in which a large number of fibers are attached to a long tendon-like b
Discover the anatomy and functions of the rhomboid minor muscle, from its origin and insertion to its role in shoulder movement.
Compounds that add or remove lipids from the membrane cause mechanical changes: treating cells with low concentrations of exogenous phospholipids results in their rapid insertion into the outer leaflet of the membrane but slow flipping into the inner leaflet, thereby creating a “transverse phospholipid...