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Kuhne's spindle (medicine) and altimeter (sh)


Kuhne's spindle (medicine)


Kuhne's spindle -->
neuromuscular spindle


A fusiform end organ in skeletal muscle in which afferent and a few efferent nerve fibres terminate; it contains from 3 to 10 striated muscle fibres (intrafusal fibres) that are much smaller than the ordinary muscle fibres, are separated from them by a capsule that encloses the organ, and are innervated by the thin axon of a gamma motoneuron (gamma motor fibre); the sensory endings that occur on the intrafusal fibres are either annulospiral or flower spray endings; this sensory end organ is particularly sensitive to passive stretch of the muscle in which it is enclosed.

Synonym: Kuhne's spindle, muscle spindle.


altimeter (sh)




Instrument that measures the altitude of the land surface or of any object, such as an airplane.

The mechanical pressure altimeter measures atmospheric pressure relative to sea level through a series of bellows, gears, and springs, which move pointers on a dial. Radio altimeters measure the distance of an aircraft above the ground rather than above sea level by indicating the time a pulse of Radio energy takes to Travel from the aircraft to the ground and back; they are used in automatic navigation and blind-landing systems.