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twitch muscle (medicine)


twitch muscle
<physiology> Striated muscle innervated by a single motoneuron and having an electrically excitable membrane that exhibits an all or none response (c.f. Tonic muscle): in mammals almost all skeletal muscles are twitch muscles.

Physiologists often divide muscles into fast and slow twitch types, the fast twitch muscles being associated with fast motor units.