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Descriptor English: Isotonic Contraction
Descriptor Spanish: Contracción Isotónica
Descriptor contracción isotónica
Scope note: Contracción muscular con un cambio despreciable en la fuerza de contracción pero con acortamiento de la distancia entre el origen y la inserción.
Descriptor Portuguese: Contração Isotônica
Descriptor French: Contraction isotonique
Entry term(s): Contraction, Isotonic
Contractions, Isotonic
Isotonic Contractions
Tree number(s): G11.427.494.493
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007551
Scope note: Muscle contraction with negligible change in the force of contraction but shortening of the distance between the origin and insertion.
Annotation: do not confuse with ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Muscle Contraction (1966-1983)
Muscles (1966-1983)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under MUSCLE CONTRACTION 1984-90
History Note: 91(84); was see under MUSCLE CONTRACTION 1984-90
DeCS ID: 7720
Unique ID: D007551
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1983/06/15
Revision Date: 2016/06/23
Isotonic Contraction - Preferred
Concept UI M0011803
Scope note Muscle contraction with negligible change in the force of contraction but shortening of the distance between the origin and insertion.
Preferred term Isotonic Contraction
Entry term(s) Contraction, Isotonic
Contractions, Isotonic
Isotonic Contractions



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