Name and briefly describe five different shapes that skeletal muscle comes in
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Strap muscles are long,flat, and narrow. Fusiform muscles are long and tubular, shaped like a spindle. Rhomboidal muscles have a quadrate shape with four sides, similar to a parallelogram. Triangular muscles are fan-shaped with convergent fibers that often twist into a spiral. Pennate muscles have oblique fibers connected to a central tendon, like a feather.
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Define each of the following terms:
tracheotomy
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