dioxide by hyperventilation in (1) normal. subjects and (2) patients in whomportions of. the nervous system have been destroyed by. disease or surgery or blocked by drugs. The. results of this study do not support the con-. ventional concept of the means by which. carbon dioxide affects vascular tone.
Identification. Muscular strength is the ability of the muscles to lift weight. Muscular endurance is the ability to sustain exertion for a specified period of time.
Local muscular endurance is usually defined as the ability of a muscle group to perform repeated contractions (either isotonic, isokinetic, or eccentric) against a load or to sustain a contraction (isometric) for an extended period of time.