When discussing graduate schools, terminal degree is a term that is thrown around often in the world of American post-secondary education. In the strictest sense of the word, terminal degrees are granted at the highest level in a particular academic discipline. In most cases, the term is used to distinguish the final degree available in graduate school for students wishing to study in the chosen subject for obtaining advanced employment.
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If a brief stimulus is applied to the muscle or a single stimulus is applied to the nerve, a single action potential will be elicited in the muscle and, after an activation delay of about 5 msec, the muscle will contract. The time-course of this contraction, called a twitch contraction, is shown in Figure 14-12B. The tension in the muscle rises rapidly to a maximum, about 50-80 msec after the stimulus and then returns to resting tension over the next 100-200 msec or so, depending upon the particular muscle.