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.
Muscles may also be described by the direction that the muscle fibres run in. 1  Fusiform muscles have fibres that run parallel to the length of the muscle, and are spindle-shaped. 2  For example, the pronator teres muscle of the forearm.he origin of a muscle is the bone, typically proximal, which has greater mass and is more stable during a contraction than a muscle's insertion. For example, with the latissimus dorsi muscle, the origin site is the torso, and the insertion is the arm.