| recruitment of end organs |
An increase in discharge from sensory end organs, resulting from an increase in the number of end organs discharging and an increase in frequency of discharge from each.
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| recruitment |
1. the gradual increase to a maximum in a reflex when a stimulus of unaltered intensity is prolonged. 2. in audiology, an abnormally large increase in the perceived loudness of a sound caused by a slight increase in its intensity. 3. in muscle physiology, the orderly increase in number of activated motor units with increasing strength of voluntary muscle contractions. See also recruitment pattern.
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| recruitment f. |
lymphocyte mitogenic f.
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| recruitment i. |
the inverse of the recruitment frequency; in a recruitment pattern, the length of time between two consecutive discharges of a given motor unit when an additional motor unit is recruited.
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| recruitment p. |
a description of the sequence of recruitment in a muscle; see also recruitment frequency and recruitment rate.
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