Practice mode Support and Movement

A sustained, smooth contraction produced when stimuli arrive so rapidly that the muscle cannot relax between them is ____.

Correct answer C. tetanus

Explanation

With high-frequency stimulation individual twitches fuse into one continuous maximal contraction called tetanus. Most normal voluntary movements rely on this summation of twitches.

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