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muscular (encz) | muscular,svalnatý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
muscular (encz) | muscular,svalový adj: jak168 |
Muscular (gcide) | Muscular \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.
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Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness. --Macaulay.
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2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
"The muscular motion." --Arbuthnot.
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3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
muscular body or arm.
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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; contractility.
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.
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muscular (wn) | muscular
adj 1: of or relating to or consisting of muscle; "muscular
contraction"
2: having a robust muscular body-build characterized by
predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective
tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer [syn:
mesomorphic, muscular] [ant: ectomorphic,
endomorphic, pyknic]
3: having or suggesting great physical power or force; "the
muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony"
4: (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged
and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer";
"powerful arms" [syn: brawny, hefty, muscular,
powerful, sinewy] |
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disease of the neuromuscular junction (encz) | disease of the neuromuscular junction, n: |
distal muscular dystrophy (encz) | distal muscular dystrophy, n: |
intramuscular (encz) | intramuscular,intramuskulární adj: Zdeněk Brožintramuscular,nitrosvalový adj: Zdeněk Brož |
intramuscular injection (encz) | intramuscular injection, n: |
intramuscularly (encz) | intramuscularly,intamuskulárně Zdeněk Brož |
limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (encz) | limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, n: |
muscular (encz) | muscular,svalnatý adj: Zdeněk Brožmuscular,svalový adj: jak168 |
muscular contraction (encz) | muscular contraction, n: |
muscular dystrophy (encz) | muscular dystrophy,svalová dystrofie Zdeněk Brož |
muscular stomach (encz) | muscular stomach,svalnatý žaludek n: občas také gizzard (aj.) Jirka
Daněk |
muscular structure (encz) | muscular structure, n: |
muscular tissue (encz) | muscular tissue, n: |
muscular tonus (encz) | muscular tonus, n: |
muscularity (encz) | muscularity,svalnatost n: Zdeněk Brož |
muscularly (encz) | muscularly,svalnatě adv: Zdeněk Brož |
myotonic muscular dystrophy (encz) | myotonic muscular dystrophy, n: |
neuromuscular (encz) | neuromuscular, adj: |
neuromuscular blocking agent (encz) | neuromuscular blocking agent, n: |
neuromuscular junction (encz) | neuromuscular junction, n: |
oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (encz) | oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, n: |
Bimuscular (gcide) | Bimuscular \Bi*mus"cu*lar\, a. [Pref. bi- + muscular.] (Zool.)
Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.
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Electro-muscular (gcide) | Electro-muscular \E*lec`tro-mus"cu*lar\, a. (Physiol.)
Pertaining to the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under
electricity, or their sensibility to it.
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Idiomuscular (gcide) | Idiomuscular \Id`i*o*mus"cu*lar\, a. [Idio- + muscular.]
(Physiol.)
Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced
by a mechanical irritant.
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Incoordination of muscular movement (gcide) | Incoordination \In`co*["o]r`di*na"tion\, n.
Lack of co["o]rdination; lack of harmonious adjustment or
action.
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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.
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Intermuscular (gcide) | Intermuscular \In`ter*mus"cu*lar\, a. (Anat.)
Between muscles; as, intermuscular septa.
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Muscular Christian (gcide) | Muscular \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.
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Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness. --Macaulay.
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2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
"The muscular motion." --Arbuthnot.
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3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
muscular body or arm.
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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; contractility.
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.
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Muscular Christianity (gcide) | Muscular \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.
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Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness. --Macaulay.
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2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
"The muscular motion." --Arbuthnot.
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3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
muscular body or arm.
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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; contractility.
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.
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Muscular excitability (gcide) | Muscular \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.
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Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness. --Macaulay.
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2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
"The muscular motion." --Arbuthnot.
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3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
muscular body or arm.
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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; contractility.
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.
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Muscular sense (gcide) | Muscular \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.
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Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
awkwardness. --Macaulay.
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2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
"The muscular motion." --Arbuthnot.
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3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
muscular body or arm.
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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; contractility.
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.
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Muscular work (gcide) | Work \Work\ (w[^u]rk), n. [OE. work, werk, weorc, AS. weorc,
worc; akin to OFries. werk, wirk, OS., D., & G. werk, OHG.
werc, werah, Icel. & Sw. verk, Dan. v[ae]rk, Goth.
gawa['u]rki, Gr. 'e`rgon, [digamma]e`rgon, work, "re`zein to
do, 'o`rganon an instrument, 'o`rgia secret rites, Zend verez
to work. [root]145. Cf. Bulwark, Energy, Erg,
Georgic, Liturgy, Metallurgy, Organ, Orgy,
Surgeon, Wright.]
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1. Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or
intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial
activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically,
physical labor.
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed. --Milton.
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2. The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one
spends labor; material for working upon; subject of
exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to
take up one's work; to drop one's work.
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Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand
That you yet know not of. --Shak.
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In every work that he began . . . he did it with all
his heart, and prospered. --2 Chron.
xxxi. 21.
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3. That which is produced as the result of labor; anything
accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance;
fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed,
service, effect, result, achievement, feat.
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To leave no rubs or blotches in the work. --Shak.
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The work some praise,
And some the architect. --Milton.
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Fancy . . .
Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams.
--Milton.
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The composition or dissolution of mixed bodies . . .
is the chief work of elements. --Sir K.
Digby.
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4. Specifically:
(a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition;
a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison.
(b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the
needle; embroidery.
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I am glad I have found this napkin; . . .
I'll have the work ta'en out,
And give 't Iago. --Shak.
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(c) pl. Structures in civil, military, or naval
engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches,
fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and
grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron
works; locomotive works; gas works.
(d) pl. The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of
a watch.
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5. Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful
work spoiled the effect. --Bp. Stillingfleet.
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6. (Mech.) The causing of motion against a resisting force.
The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by,
the product of the force into the amount of motion along
the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy,
under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also
Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.
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Energy is the capacity of doing work . . . Work is
the transference of energy from one system to
another. --Clerk
Maxwell.
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7. (Mining) Ore before it is dressed. --Raymond.
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8. pl. (Script.) Performance of moral duties; righteous
conduct.
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He shall reward every man according to his works.
--Matt. xvi.
27.
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Faith, if it hath not works, is dead. --James ii.
17.
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9. (Cricket) Break; twist. [Cant]
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10. (Mech.) The causing of motion against a resisting force,
measured by the product of the force into the component
of the motion resolved along the direction of the force.
Energy is the capacity of doing work. . . . Work is
the transference of energy from one system to
another. --Clerk
Maxwell.
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11. (Mining) Ore before it is dressed.
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Muscular work (Physiol.), the work done by a muscle through
the power of contraction.
To go to work, to begin laboring; to commence operations;
to contrive; to manage. "I 'll go another way to work with
him." --Shak.
To set on work, to cause to begin laboring; to set to work.
[Obs.] --Hooker.
To set to work, to employ; to cause to engage in any
business or labor.
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Muscularity (gcide) | Muscularity \Mus`cu*lar"i*ty\, n.
The state or quality of being muscular. --Grew.
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Muscularize (gcide) | Muscularize \Mus"cu*lar*ize\, v. t.
To make muscular. --Lowell.
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Muscularly (gcide) | Muscularly \Mus"cu*lar*ly\, adv.
In a muscular manner.
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nervomuscular (gcide) | nervomuscular \ner`vo*mus"cu*lar\
(n[~e]r`v[-o]*m[u^]s"k[-u]*l[~e]r), a. [Nerve + muscular.]
(Physiol.)
Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of
nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
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Neuromuscular (gcide) | Neuromuscular \Neu`ro*mus"cu*lar\, a. [Neuro- + muscular.]
(Physiol.)
Nervomuscular.
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Progressive muscular atrophy (gcide) | Progressive \Pro*gress"ive\, a. [Cf. F. progressif.]
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1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing
progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; --
opposed to retrograde.
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2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state.
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3. (U. S. History) Of or pertaining to the Progressive party.
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4. Favoring improvement, change, progress, or reform,
especially in a political context; -- used of people.
Contrasted with conservative.
[PJC]
Note: The term progressive is sometimes used to describe the
views of a politician, where liberal might have been
used at one time, in communities where the term liberal
has come to connote extreme views.
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5. Disposed toward adopting new methods in government or
education, holding tolerant and liberal ideas, and
generally favoring improvement in civic life; -- of towns
and communities.
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Progressive euchre or Progressive 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.
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Pro*gress"ive*ness, n.
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Submuscular (gcide) | Submuscular \Sub*mus"cu*lar\, a.
Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.
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Unimuscular (gcide) | Unimuscular \U`ni*mus"cu*lar\, a. [Uni- muscular.] (Zool.)
Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression
on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian.
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Unmuscular (gcide) | Unmuscular \Unmuscular\
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becker muscular dystrophy (wn) | Becker muscular dystrophy
n 1: a form of muscular dystrophy that sets in in adolescence or
adulthood and progresses slowly but will affect all
voluntary muscles; characterized by generalized weakness
and muscle wasting that affects limb and trunk muscles
first; similar to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy but less
severe; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by
females but affecting only males) |
disease of the neuromuscular junction (wn) | disease of the neuromuscular junction
n 1: a disease characterized by impairment of neuromuscular
junctions |
distal muscular dystrophy (wn) | distal muscular dystrophy
n 1: a form of muscular dystrophy that sets in between 40 and 60
years of age and is characterized by weakness and wasting
of the muscles of the hands and forearms and lower legs;
inheritance is autosomal dominant |
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