A smooth, sustained contraction resulting from very rapid stimulation of the muscle, in which no evidence of relaxation is seen, is called (a) a twitch, (b) temporal summation, (c) multiple motor unit summation, (d) fused tetanus.
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Temporal summation is the phenomenon in which the frequency of action potentials in a neuron is high enough that the EPSPs overlap and sum, leading to a stronger signal. Multiple motor unit summation, also known as recruitment, is the process by which the number Show more…
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