| myodiastasis | Separation of muscle. Origin: myo-+ G. Diastasis, separation (05 Mar 2000) |
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| myodynamia | Muscular strength. Origin: myo-+ G. Dynamis, power (05 Mar 2000) |
| myodynamics | <physiology> The department of physiology which deals with the principles of muscular contraction; the exercise of muscular force or contraction. Origin: Myo- + dynamics. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| myodynamometer | <physiology> An instrument for measuring the muscular strength of man or of other animals; a dynamometer. Origin: Myo- + E. Dynamometer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| myodynia | Synonym: myalgia. Origin: myo-+ G. Odyne, pain (05 Mar 2000) |
| myodystony | A condition of slow relaxation, interrupted by a succession of slight contractions, following electrical stimulation of a muscle. Origin: myo-+ G. Dys-, difficult, + tonos, tone, tension (05 Mar 2000) |
| myodystrophy | Myodystrophia Synonym: muscular dystrophy. Origin: myo-+ G. Dys-, difficult, poor, + trophe, nourishment (05 Mar 2000) |
| myoedema | A localised contraction of a degenerating muscle, occurring at the point of a sharp blow, independent of the nerve supply. Synonym: idiomuscular contraction, mounding, myoidema. Origin: myo-+ G. Oidema, swelling (05 Mar 2000) |
| myoelastic | Pertaining to closely associated smooth muscle fibres and elastic connective tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| myoelastic theory | A theory stating that sound of the human voice is produced by vibrations of the vocal cords resulting from folding upward due to air pressure below, and subsequent movement downward due to elastic tension of cords. (05 Mar 2000) |
| myoelectric | Relating to the electrical properties of muscle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| myoelectric complex, migrating | Bursts of depolarisation that move from the stomach to the ileocaecal valve at regular frequency during the interdigestive period. The complex and its accompanying motor activity periodically cleanse the bowel of interdigestive secretion and debris in preparation for the next meal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| myoendocarditis | Inflammation of the muscular wall and lining membrane of the heart. Origin: myo-+ G. Endon, within, + kardia, heart, + -itis, inflammation (05 Mar 2000) |
| myoepicardial mantle | The dorsal wall of the primitive pericardium which, in the early somite embryo, becomes both the epicardium and the myocardium. (05 Mar 2000) |
| myoepithelial | 1. <biology> Derived from epithelial cells and destined to become a part of the muscular system; applied to structural elements in certain embryonic forms. 2. <zoology> Having the characteristics of both muscle and epithelium; as, the myoepithelial cells of the hydra. Origin: Myo- + epithelial. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |