Muscles also increase in firmness, which is called tonus or tone. Tone refers to the resting tension of a muscle and its readiness to contract. Muscle tone and muscle maturity are closely related. These structural changes are far longer lasting and tend to endure even if you have a prolonged...
Although you might have problems that make you vulnerable to a muscle strain, the direct cause of every muscle strain is traumatic ripping of the muscle tissue— arg! — usually at the point where the muscle meets its tendon. Muscle will tear under the force of your own muscular contraction...
A reduction of muscle tone A certain amount of daily exercise is essential to maintain proper body tone and function Voice A sound resembling or reminiscent of vocal utterance The murmuring voice of the forest. Tone Give greater strength or firmness to (the body or a muscle) Exercise tones up...
Muscle tone means different things to different people. On the one hand, muscle tone (or tonus) refers to the readiness of a muscle to contract. It’s a term used by medical professionals when discussing the health of muscle tissue. On the other hand, fitness enthusiasts use muscle tone to...
This chapter summarizes the methodological issues and empirical findings on the acuity of perception of interoceptive information, dubbed interoceptive accuracy. Both homeostatic (classic visceroceptive channels, thermosensation, itch, pain, affective touch, muscle fatigue, chemical senses), and somatosensory...
Another view, not mutually exclusive, is that output from the locomotor-promoting system provides a negative feedback, via the active immobility pathways, to act as a "brake" on movement, while at the same time maintaining the muscular tonus that is characteristic of active immobility. 展开 ...
Looks like narcolepsy, particularly what seems to be a sudden and uncontrolled loss of muscle tonus – I don’t know that it’s particularly common in setters, but it shows up in a lot of dogs. Since canine narcolepsy often precipitated by excitement, onset during play is not unexpected. ...
She was sleeping on her back so her lips fell back and exposed her teeth simply because of gravity and lack of muscle tonus. When she noticed me taking the picture she opened her eyes but didn´t move otherwise so she still retained that funny sleeping “grin” Both my dogs smile a...
What Warburg actually discovered was that cancer cells were low in oxygen due to a change in cellular respiration from using oxygen to using fermentation of sugar. In his own words: “Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one ...