Pennate

(noun)

A feather shaped muscle with fascicles that attach obliquely (at an angle) to a central tendon.

Related Terms

Examples of Pennate in the following topics:

  • How Skeletal Muscles Are Named

    • The anatomical arrangement of skeletal muscle fascicles can be described as parallel, convergent, pennate, or sphincter.
    • In Pennate muscles, the tendon runs through the length of the muscle.
    • If all the fascicles of a pennate muscle are on the same side of the tendon, the pennate muscle is called unipennate.
    • If the central tendon branches within a pennate muscle, the muscle is called multipennate.
    • The four types of muscle; parallel (fusiform and non-fusiform), circular, convergent and pennate (uni, bi and multi).