When a muscle is stimulated repeatedly for several seconds with a constant stimulus, the amount of tension gradually increases to a maximum. This phenomenon is called
A) Incomplete tetanus.
B) Complete tetanus.
C) A twitch.
D) Wave summation.
E) Recruitment
D) Wave summation.
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