isotonic contraction. The type of skeletal muscular contractions in which the force applied by the muscle is sufficient to move the load, and as a result, the muscle shortens while its muscle tension remains relatively constant.
Answers.comÂ® is making the world better one answer at a time. HYPERESTHESIA. is a condition of abnormal and excessive sensitivity to touch, pain, or other sensory stimuli. (hyper- means excessive, and -esthesia means sensation or feeling) 14 people found this useful.
In psychophysics, sensory threshold is the weakest stimulus that an organism can detect. Unless otherwise indicated, it is usually defined as the weakest stimulus that can be detected half the time, for example, as indicated by a point on a probability curve. Methods have been developed to measure thresholds in any of the senses.