Multipennate muscle
Musculus multipennatus
Definition
There are muscles in which the fibers are arranged in curved bundles in one or more plane; these are called mutliipennate, and an example is afforded in the Sphincters.
References
This definition incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy (20th U.S. edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1918 – from http://www.bartleby.com/107/).
