Slow Twitch

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
ST
Pronunciation
/sloʊ twɪʧ/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. The contraction time and half relaxation time of isometric single twitch of soleus decreased gradually after suspension, which probably indicated that there was conversion of slow twitch fibres to the fast ones.
  2. Effects of fast twitch and slow twitch muscular fibers on the basic physical performance of the body and the biomechanical characteristics of movement structures were preliminarily observed by applying experimental methods.
  3. Although both types of mutations increase the ratio of fast to slow twitch muscle fibers, many other aspects of the phenotypes are very different.
  4. During exercises of a single segment and the simplest movement of the whole body the influences of the fast twitch and slow twitch muscular fibers were principally expressed in the aspects of force and velocity of the movement.
  5. Myosin component characteristics of fast - and slow - twitch muscle fibers in rats

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