neuromuscular spindle

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Function

  • proprioreceptor that provides information about changes in muscle length
  • the neuromuscular spindle is especially sensitive to passive stretch of the muscle in which it is encapsulated

Structure

* smaller than ordinary striated muscle fibers

Notes

More general terms

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
  2. Proprioceptors http://courses.washington.edu/conj/bess/spindle/proprioceptors.html