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CRAMP |
Muscular contraction |
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SPASM |
Muscular contraction |
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STRANGURY |
A painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, produced by
spasmodic muscular contraction. |
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CONVULSION |
An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of
the muscular parts of an animal body. |
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MYOGRAPH |
An instrument for determining and recording the different
phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction. |
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MYODYNAMICS |
The department of physiology which deals with the
principles of muscular contraction; the exercise of muscular force or
contraction. |
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TWITCH |
A short, spastic contraction of the fibers or muscles; a
simple muscular contraction; as, convulsive twitches; a twitch in the
side. |
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THOMSEN'S DISEASE |
An affection apparently congenital, consisting in
tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring
after a period of muscular inaction. |
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MYOGRAPHY |
The description of muscles, including the study of
muscular contraction by the aid of registering apparatus, as by some
form of myograph; myology. |
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ELECTRO-BIOSCOPY |
A method of determining the presence or absence
of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting
the presence or absence of muscular contraction. |
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INCITO-MOTOR |
Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which,
in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and
excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor. |
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PERISTALTIC |
...he
intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive
contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their
conte... |
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EXCITO-MOTORY |
... nervous system concerned in reflex actions, by which impressions are
transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce
mu... |