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Figure 5 Ventricular torsion and untwisting. Torsion and untwisting are the result of contraction and relaxation of the spiraling subepicardial and subendocardial myofibers. The net ventricular torsion is the result of the subepicardial contraction and subendocardial counterbalancing contraction.
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