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fascial compartment

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fascial compartment,
a part of the body that is walled off by fascial membranes, usually containing a muscle or group of muscles or an organ, just as the heart is contained by the mediastinum. Compare fascial cleft, fascial membrane lamination.


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The muscular adaptations to chronic running exercise leading to local hypertrophy, reduce the compliance of the available volume within the fascial compartment (Hutchinson and Ireland, 1994; Tzortziou et al.
Specifically, the visceral space is a fascial compartment that extends from the neck, through the mediastinum, and eventually to the retroperitoneum, forming an anatomic connection between all three areas.
 
 
 
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