Meaning of bipennate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of a muscle, the fibres of which attach to a tendon on two sides (as a feather barbed on both sides).
   not-comparable
2. Bipinnate (pinnate and having a pinnate leaflet).
   not-comparable
3. Having two wings; bipennated.
   not-comparable

Examples

“It then follows that bipennate muscles generate⟳ even more force⟳ than unipennate ones of similar volume, and the force⟳ increases with the angle of pennation.”

“Beneath the deltoid lies the external rotators of the shoulders, including the bipennate infraspinatus and the teres minor (Fig. 5-20B).”

“Bipennate muscles have⟳ a central tendon with oblique insertion fibers on both sides, eg, the rectus femoris (Figure⟳ 1.3c).”

“Its bipennate leaves are composed of a slightly straightened general petiole, of four partial petioles, situated, two at the extremity of the proceeding, and convergent, two a little lower, and growing almost at right angles; each of them bearing more than twenty pairs of small horizontal petioles.”

“But this Burnet Pimpinella is of a different (Umbelliferous) order⟳, though similarly styled because its leaves are likewise bipennate.”

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