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Bimuscular
Bimuscular Bi*mus"cu*lar, a. [Pref. bi- + muscular.]
(Zo["o]l.)
Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.
Electro-muscular
Electro-muscular E*lec`tro-mus"cu*lar, a. (Physiol.)
Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under
electricity, or their sensibility to it.
Idiomuscular
Idiomuscular Id`i*o*mus"cu*lar, a. [Idio- + muscular.]
(Physiol.)
Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced
by a mechanical irritant.
Incoordination of muscular movementIncoordination In`co*["o]r`di*na"tion, n.
Want of co["o]rdination; lack of harmonious adjustment or
action.
Inco["o]rdination of muscular movement (Physiol.),
irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious
action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary
control over them. Intermuscular
Intermuscular In`ter*mus"cu*lar, a. (Anat.)
Between muscles; as, intermuscular septa.
MuscularMuscular Mus"cu*lar, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See Muscle.]
1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
muscular fiber.
Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness. --Macaulay.
2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
``The muscular motion.' --Arbuthnot.
3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
muscular body or arm.
Muscular Christian, one who believes in a part of religious
duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
--T. Hughes.
Muscular CHristianity.
(a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who
believe that it is a part of religious duty to
maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
conductive to good health, good morals, and right
feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes.
(b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as
opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue
of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
irritability.
Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense
by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
resistance offering by external objects. Muscular ChristianMuscular Mus"cu*lar, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See Muscle.]
1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
muscular fiber.
Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness. --Macaulay.
2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
``The muscular motion.' --Arbuthnot.
3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
muscular body or arm.
Muscular Christian, one who believes in a part of religious
duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
--T. Hughes.
Muscular CHristianity.
(a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who
believe that it is a part of religious duty to
maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
conductive to good health, good morals, and right
feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes.
(b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as
opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue
of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
irritability.
Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense
by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
resistance offering by external objects. Muscular CHristianityMuscular Mus"cu*lar, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See Muscle.]
1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
muscular fiber.
Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness. --Macaulay.
2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
``The muscular motion.' --Arbuthnot.
3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
muscular body or arm.
Muscular Christian, one who believes in a part of religious
duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
--T. Hughes.
Muscular CHristianity.
(a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who
believe that it is a part of religious duty to
maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
conductive to good health, good morals, and right
feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes.
(b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as
opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue
of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
irritability.
Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense
by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
resistance offering by external objects. Muscular excitabilityMuscular Mus"cu*lar, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See Muscle.]
1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
muscular fiber.
Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness. --Macaulay.
2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
``The muscular motion.' --Arbuthnot.
3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
muscular body or arm.
Muscular Christian, one who believes in a part of religious
duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
--T. Hughes.
Muscular CHristianity.
(a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who
believe that it is a part of religious duty to
maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
conductive to good health, good morals, and right
feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes.
(b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as
opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue
of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
irritability.
Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense
by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
resistance offering by external objects. Muscular senseMuscular Mus"cu*lar, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See Muscle.]
1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
muscular fiber.
Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness. --Macaulay.
2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
``The muscular motion.' --Arbuthnot.
3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
muscular body or arm.
Muscular Christian, one who believes in a part of religious
duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
--T. Hughes.
Muscular CHristianity.
(a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who
believe that it is a part of religious duty to
maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
conductive to good health, good morals, and right
feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes.
(b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as
opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue
of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
irritability.
Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense
by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
resistance offering by external objects. Muscularity
Muscularity Mus`cu*lar"i*ty, n.
The state or quality of being muscular. --Grew.
Muscularize
Muscularize Mus"cu*lar*ize, v. t.
To make muscular. --Lowell.
Muscularly
Muscularly Mus"cu*lar*ly, adv.
In a muscular manner.
Musculation
Musculation Mus`cu*la"tion, n. (Anat.)
The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts.
Musculature
Musculature Mus"cu*la*ture, n. [Cf. F. musculature.] (Anat.)
Musculation.
Nervomuscular
Nervomuscular Ner`vo*mus"cu*lar, a. [Nerve + muscular.]
(Physiol.)
Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of
nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
Neuromuscular
Neuromuscular Neu`ro*mus"cu*lar, a. [Neuro- + muscular.]
(Physiol.)
Nervomuscular.
Progressive muscular atrophyProgressive Pro*gress"ive, a. [Cf. F. progressif.]
1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing
progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; --
opposed to retrograde.
2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing at card
parties, by which after every game, the losers at the
first table go to the last table, and the winners at all
the tables, except the first, move up to the next table.
Progressive muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous disorder
characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles. --
Pro*gress"ive*ly, adv. -- Pro*gress"ive*ness, n. Submuscular
Submuscular Sub*mus"cu*lar, a.
Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.
Unimuscular
Unimuscular U`ni*mus"cu*lar, a. [Uni- muscular.] (Zo["o]l.)
Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression
on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian.
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