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A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.

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Muscle consists largely of actin and myosin filaments.

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An organ composed of muscle tissue.

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(usually in the plural) A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise.

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Strength, force.

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Hired strongmen or bodyguards.

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To use force to make progress, especially physical force.

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He muscled his way through the crowd.

Every muscle in her body was sore.

Not a single muscle of his face--which in those days was still thin--moved.

He was one large muscle with a direct gaze that made her overly self-conscious.

A deeper ache, as if she had the flu and every muscle in her body was on fire, was made worse by sleeping on the cold floor.

Every muscle in her body was aching.

The iris contains a sphincter and a dilator muscle; the former, supplied by branches from the oculomotorius nerve, is under control of the will, whilst the dilator fibres belong to the sympathetic system.

One, the quadratus or bursalis muscle, arises from the hinder surface of the eyeball, and forms with its narrow margin, which is directed towards the optic nerve, a pulley for the long tendon of the pyramidalis muscle.

Below this is a circular, and below that again a longitudinal, layer of muscle fibres.

Tendon of the flexor hallucis longus muscle sending a strong vinculum to that of the flexor profundus muscle, the tendon of which goes to the third toe only.

The os articulare bears on its inner side the inner mandibular process which serves for the insertion of part of the digastric muscle or opener of the mouth; another portion of this muscle is attached to the os angulare, which frequently forms a FIG.

A small amount is also found in the muscle protein myoglobin.

With large, brown eyes and dark hair, she was toned and tall, a model's body with an extra layer of muscle.

This regulation of turgor is as characteristic of vegetable protoplasm as contraction is of muscle.

We have here the interesting fact that a muscle (portion of the triceps humeri of the reptiles) has been reduced to a tendon, which in a secondary way has become connected with cutaneous muscles, which, when strongly developed, represent its belly.

Of course this doubleheaded condition is the more primitive, and as such exists in most nidifugous birds, but in many of these, as well as in many nidicolous birds, either the caudal or the iliac head is absent, and in a very few (Cancroma, Dicholophus, Steatornis and some Cathartes) the whole muscle is absent.

Both are supplied by the abducens nerve, together with the rectus externus muscle.

Robbin's text on pathology also contains sections on mitochondrial myopathy, stating that this kind of muscle wasting results in severe weakness.

Biochemists call these thick muscle fibers myosin heavy chain proteins (MHC ).

Yeast actin filaments display ATP-dependent sliding movement over surfaces coated with rabbit muscle myosin.

Meanwhile, tests for genes that point to other muscle diseases help doctors avoid wrongly diagnosing myositis, " he said.

Imaging such as MRI may show muscle edema in active myositis.

She'd run her hands over his perfect body, marveling at the smooth skin stretched over solid muscle.

Many of the muscle fibres show numerous droplets of oil seen as dark round granules.

The remarkable discovery of the dual nature of the nervous system, of its duplex development as a lower and upper system of "neurons," has shed much light upon the problems of practical medicine, but this construction is described under Brain; Neuropathology; Muscle And Nerve, &C.

The Pseudolamellibranchia included the oyster, scallop and their allies which formerly constituted the order Monomyaria, having only a single large adductor muscle or in addition a very small anterior adductor.

The navigable mileage of the Alabama rivers is 2000 m., but obstructions often prevent the formation of a continuous route, notably the "Muscle Shoals" of the Tennessee, extending from a point io m.

The skin consists of a transparent cuticle excreted by the underlying ectoderm, the cells of which though usually one-layered may be heaped up into several layers in the head; beneath this is a basement membrane, and then a layer of longitudinal muscle fibres which are limited inside by a layer of peritoneal cells.

In the heart muscle it travels much more slowly.

Aconitine, delphinine and many of their derivatives have a very widespread depressing action on muscle and nerve.

The larvae bore into muscle tissue; infestation is called myiasis.

Damage in the muscle causes the release of pigment called myoglobin into the bloodstream where it is transported to the kidneys.

Carbohydrates are the main energy source for muscle functioning.

Supra-angular and coronoid splint-bones serve for the insertion of part of the temporal or masseter muscle.

There is a patella, intercalated in the tendon of the femori-tibialis or extensor cruris muscle.

This, the stretcher of the cubital quills, is a very interesting muscle.

Muscle scar divided into numerous impressions.

Thus the brain falls off in bulk, and the muscles become attenuated, and in no muscle is this more notable than in the case of the heart.

A tendency to pigmentation also develops in certain tissues of the body, such as the nerve and muscle cells.

It may follow a diminished functional activity, as in the atrophying thymus gland' and in the muscle cells of the uterus after parturition.

Note that the malignant cells are invading and destroying the muscle fibres of the heart.

The change appears to begin in the fibrils which lie between the circular muscle fibres of the middle coat of the smaller arterioles and extends both backwards and forwards along the vessels.

Loeb found experimentally that increase of metabolic products in muscle greatly raised its osmotic pressure, and so it would absorb water from a relatively concentrated sodium chloride solution.

Cysticercus cellulosae may be comparatively innocuous in a muscle or subcutaneous tissue, but most hurtful in the eye or brain.

In the Entoprocta the tentacles are withdrawn by being infolded into the "vestibule," a depression of the oral surface which can be closed by a sphincter muscle.

In the branching Ctenostomes the entire body-wall is flexible, so that the contraction of a parietal muscle acts equally on the two points with which it is connected.

The bivalved carapace has a jointed rostrum, and covers only the front part of the body, to which it is only attached quite in front, the valve-like sides being under control of an adductor muscle.

Motor Automatism, on the other hand, is a non-reflex movement of a voluntary muscle, executed in the waking state but not controlled by the ordinary waking consciousness.

The hinder adductor muscle is always large in Lamellibranchs, but the anterior adductor may be very small (Heteromya), or absent altogether (Monomya).

The single adductor muscle of the Monomya is separated by a difference of fibre into two portions, but neither of these can be regarded as possibly representing the anterior adductor of the other Lamellibranchs.

Each nephridium in the oyster is a pyriform sac, which communicates by a narrow canal with the urino-genital groove placed to the front of the great adductor muscle; by a second narrow canal it communicates with the pericardium.