How Long It Took: 12 years, or 3 particularly embarrassing growth spurts. Why It Took So Long: Director Richard Linklater wanted to capture the process of growing up in a way that was true to life, so he brought a group of actors together for a week every year for twelve years in order to chart Mason's (Ellar Coltrane) life from age 6 to 18.
Fusiform muscle. Definition. noun. A muscle that has a shape of spindle, which is being wider in the middle and narrowing towards both ends. Supplement. Example of fusiform muscle is the biceps brachii.Fusiform muscles are arranged in a strap-like fashion to provide the greatest degree of shortening, thus, enabling the muscle to produce quick and wide range of motion. However, compared with penniform muscle, they are not a very powerful type of muscle. muscle that has a shape of spindle, which is being wider in the middle and narrowing towards both ends. Supplement. Example of fusiform muscle is the biceps brachii.
A rapid or fast-twitch muscle in which pale, large white fibers predominate; mitochondria and myoglobin are relatively sparse compared with red muscle; involved in phasic contraction. categories of muscle fibre adapted for various modes of use.Normally taken to refer to skeletal muscle unless specified otherwise.wo of the three types of skeletal muscle are pale in color and fast-twitchâtype IIa (fast-twitch oxidative-glycolytic), type IIb (fast-twitch glycolytic).