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Splenial :: Splenial (a.) Of or pertaining to the splenial bone or splenius muscle.

Myo- :: Myo- () A combining form of Gr. /, /, a muscle; as, myograph, myochrome..

Strain :: Strain (n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain..

Retract :: Retract (v. i.) To draw back; to draw up; as, muscles retract after amputation..

Bower :: Bower (v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm..

Associable :: Associable (a.) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc..

Systaltic :: Syssarcosis (n.) The junction of bones by intervening muscles.

Wryneck :: Wryneck (n.) A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.

Flaccid :: Flaccid (a.) Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh..

Corrugator :: Corrugator (n.) A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

Parelectronomy :: Parelectronomy (n.) A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed..

Rectus :: Rectus (n.) A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye..

Muscle :: Muscle (n.) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.

Contracture :: Contracture (n.) A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles..

Myotomy :: Myotomy (n.) The dissection, or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection, of muscles..

Psoas :: Psoas (n.) An internal muscle arising from the lumbar vertebrae and inserted into the femur. In man there are usually two on each side, and the larger one, or great psoas, forms a part of the iliopsoas..

Extractive :: Extractive (n.) Any one of a large class of substances obtained by extraction, and consisting largely of nitrogenous hydrocarbons, such as xanthin, hypoxanthin, and creatin extractives from muscle tissue..

Tricipital :: Tricipital (a.) Having three heads, or three origins; as, a tricipital muscle..

Extensor :: Extensor (n.) A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor..

Lumbrical :: Lumbrical (n.) A lumbrical muscle.

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