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Concentric Contraction: An isotonic muscle contraction, where a muscle contracts or shortens.

Lanthanide Contraction: An effect that causes sixth period elements with filled 4f subshells to be smaller than otherwise expected. The intervention of the lanthanides increases the effective nuclear charge, which . . . View Full Definition

Peak Contraction: Exercising a muscle until it cramps by using shortened movements.

Eccentric Contraction: Muscle lengthens while maintaining tension.

Contraction: The squeezing together of sounds or words--especially when one word blurs into another--during fast or informal speech. Contractions such as I'm (I am), he's (he is), and they're (they are) . . . View Full Definition

Concentric: Used to describe the part of a repetition in which the muscle group works against gravity, usually contracting the muscle, such as lifting a weight.

Concentric Muscle Action: When a muscle shortens while contracting against resistance.

Plyometric Exercise: A technique that includes specific exercises which encompass a rapid stretch of a muscle eccentrically, followed immediately by a rapid concentric contraction of that muscle for the purpose . . . View Full Definition