Abstract
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the commonly known term “muscle contraction”? Well, I don’t have to be psychic to guess that you automatically think of the contraction or shortening of the muscle. This is not surprising at all. Also, the definition in the Duden foreign dictionary is “(Med.) the contracting (esp. of muscles)”. Unfortunately, this definition is woefully inadequate to describe muscle function and misleads us into misconceptions. Why?
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Toigo, M. (2023). What Are We Talking About? Clear Thinking Through Clear Terminology and Vice Versa. In: Muscle Revolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68048-3_1
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