. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. BOCK : PALATINE PROCESS OP THE PREMAXILLA 389 be emphasized that the functional unit of a muscle is not the whole muscle, or a recognizable part thereof, or even a muscle fiber, but the motor unit — which is the aggregate of muscle fibers innervated by a single nerve fiber (= motor cell axon). If we wish to be completely precise in our studies of muscle func- tion, then we must separate the muscle into its motor units, which is an impossible task. Therefore, the degree of analytical pre- cision is not noticeably reduc


. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. BOCK : PALATINE PROCESS OP THE PREMAXILLA 389 be emphasized that the functional unit of a muscle is not the whole muscle, or a recognizable part thereof, or even a muscle fiber, but the motor unit — which is the aggregate of muscle fibers innervated by a single nerve fiber (= motor cell axon). If we wish to be completely precise in our studies of muscle func- tion, then we must separate the muscle into its motor units, which is an impossible task. Therefore, the degree of analytical pre- cision is not noticeably reduced if the recognized subdivisions of a muscle merge into one Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass. : The Museum


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