Multipennate muscle - e-Anatomy - IMAIOS

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/).

Anatomical hierarchy

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Comparative anatomy in animals

Multipennate muscle

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