Graded Muscle Contraction
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Wave (temporal) summation
A second stimulation is applied to a muscle before it finishes relaxing
Way to produce graded contraction in muscle.
Change rate of stimulus and Change strength of stimulus
Graded Muscle Contraction
Contraction of muscle that very in strength
Complete tetanus
Prolonged, smooth contraction that results from very rapid stimulation
Incomplete tetanus
like wave summation, but the stimuli are delivered more frequently