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isometric 1. Physiol of or relating to muscular contraction that does not produce shortening of the muscle 2. (of a crystal or system of crystallization) having three mutually perpendicular equal axes 3. Crystallog another word for cubic 4. Prosody having or made up of regular feet 5. (of a method of projecting a drawing in three dimensions) having the three axes equally inclined and all lines drawn to scale 6. a drawing made in this way 7. a line on a graph showing variations of pressure with temperature at constant volume isometric [¦ī·sə′me·trik] (physics) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The control subjects' quadriceps femoris muscles were tested isometrically using a computer-controlled dynamometer (Kin-Cam III) * with their knees flexed to 90 degrees and with approximately 75 degrees of hip flexion. In passive stretching there is external loading on relaxed or isometrically contracted muscles. The change in tension was measured isometrically with Grass FT03 force transducers (Grass Instrument Co. |
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