bipennate
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bipennate (not comparable)
- (medicine, anatomy, zoology) 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).
- 1999, Christopher McGowan, A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics:
- 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.
- 2007, Neal S. Elattrache, Christopher D. Harner, Raffy Mirzayan, Jon K. Sekiya, editors, Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine, page 50:
- Beneath the deltoid lies the external rotators of the shoulders, including the bipennate infraspinatus and the teres minor (Fig. 5-20B).
- 2008, John O'Neill, Musculoskeletal Ultrasound: Anatomy and Technique, page 4:
- Bipennate muscles have a central tendon with oblique insertion fibers on both sides, eg, the rectus femoris (Figure 1.3c).
- (botany, of leaves) Bipinnate (pinnate and having a pinnate leaflet).
- 1849, Adrien de Jussieu, James Hewetson Wilson, The Elements of Botany, page 501:
- 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.
- 1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, 2006 Gutenberg eBook edition:
- But this Burnet Pimpinella is of a different (Umbelliferous) order, though similarly styled because its leaves are likewise bipennate.
- Having two wings; bipennated.
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of a muscle attached to a tendon on two sides
pinnate with a pinnate leaflet — see bipinnate
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Bipennate muscle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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bipennate