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  • Thumbnail for Muscle spindle
    Muscle spindles are stretch receptors within the body of a skeletal muscle that primarily detect changes in the length of the muscle. They convey length...
    13 KB (1,488 words) - 14:37, 14 August 2024
  • with a lathe. The spindle was common at least as early as the 17th century in Western Europe as an element of chair and table legs, stretchers, candlesticks...
    2 KB (174 words) - 02:22, 29 August 2023
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    diameter in the wood to a smaller diameter. Spindle turning is the method used for items such as chair and table legs, lamps, cues, bats, pens, candlesticks...
    1 KB (151 words) - 13:37, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bicycle pedal
    crank allowing the leg to turn the bottom bracket spindle and propel the bicycle's wheels. A pedal usually consists of a spindle that threads into the...
    24 KB (3,057 words) - 16:56, 9 June 2024
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    which the chair-back and legs are round-tenoned, or pushed into drilled holes, in contrast to other styles of chairs whose back legs and back uprights are...
    14 KB (1,553 words) - 14:44, 4 July 2024
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    axis parallel to the bed, called the spindle. Spindles are often hollow and have an interior Morse taper on the spindle nose (i.e., facing to the right /...
    42 KB (5,737 words) - 03:56, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Rohlfs
    review in 1895 in which a Chicago critic wrote, "His face is comedy, his spindling legs are comedy, and those ponderous double-jointed, floppy hands of his...
    8 KB (958 words) - 07:32, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Proprioception
    (group II neurons). These two types of sensory neurons compose muscle spindles. There is a similar division of encoding in invertebrates; different subgroups...
    57 KB (7,063 words) - 03:24, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spinocerebellar tracts
    Proprioceptive information is obtained by Golgi tendon organs and muscle spindles. Golgi tendon organs consist of a fibrous capsule enclosing tendon fascicles...
    14 KB (1,535 words) - 15:38, 12 September 2024
  • John Witherspoon McDowall (June 26, 1905 – May 25, 1969), known as "Spindle Legs", was an American football, baseball, basketball player and track athlete...
    9 KB (714 words) - 19:17, 1 October 2024
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    of two or three levels of plate glass in undulating shapes resting on spindle legs of burnished steel. An example is held in the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin...
    21 KB (2,220 words) - 07:46, 27 April 2024
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    represented by the magnetic transitions. A typical HDD design consists of a spindle that holds flat circular disks, called platters, which hold the recorded...
    138 KB (14,056 words) - 17:42, 17 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pommel horse
    variations on a typical circling skill by turning (moores and spindles), straddling their legs (Flairs), placing one or both hands on the pommel or the leather...
    8 KB (877 words) - 20:52, 10 August 2024
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    things being equal, riders with shorter legs should use proportionally shorter cranks and those with longer legs should use proportionally longer cranks...
    39 KB (5,260 words) - 19:20, 4 October 2024
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    had the further disfigurement of baldness, a protruding belly, and spindling legs, though the latter had become thin from a long illness. Domitian was...
    103 KB (12,258 words) - 20:14, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reflex arc
    reflexes (patellar reflex, achilles reflex), brief stimulation to the muscle spindle results in contraction of the agonist or effector muscle. By contrast,...
    6 KB (594 words) - 12:01, 19 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Guard hair
    cattle, and on the face and legs of sheep, the covering bristles are shorter, stiffer, straighter, and inconspicuously spindled. Bristles are firm, generally...
    4 KB (572 words) - 03:51, 24 September 2023
  • (silver dirhams and copper pools of the Golden Horde) Ovruch slate spindle whorl - spindle whorl, carved out of pink and red slate stone (pyrophyllite slate)...
    25 KB (3,230 words) - 19:51, 23 November 2024
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    knitting needles, needle cases, thimbles, pens, chessmen, spinning tops; legs, spindles, and pegs for furniture; balusters and newel posts for architecture;...
    32 KB (4,709 words) - 09:03, 8 October 2024
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    roughly every 1.0–1.7 minutes and are often followed by bursts of sleep spindles. They occur spontaneously but also occur in response to external stimuli...
    11 KB (1,463 words) - 03:58, 28 June 2024
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