(n.) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.
(n.) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.
(n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight.
(n.) See Mussel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(2) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(3) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(4) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
(5) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
(6) Muscle weakness and atrophy were most marked in the distal parts of the legs, especially in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles, and then spread to the thighs and gluteal muscles.
(7) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
(8) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(9) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
(10) Further, the maximal increase in force of contraction was measured using papillary muscle strips from some of these patients.
(11) Peripheral eosinocytes increased by 10%, and tests for HBsAg, antiHBs, antimitochondrial antibody and anti-smooth muscle antibody were all negative.
(12) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(13) A definite relationship between intelligence level and the type of muscle disease was found.
(14) After vascular injury, smooth muscle cells proliferate, reaching a maximum rate at day 2.
(15) In the absence of an authentic target for the MASH proteins, we examined their DNA binding and transcriptional regulatory activity by using a binding site (the E box) from the muscle creatine kinase (MCK) gene, a target of MyoD.
(16) Only the approximately 2.7 kb mRNA species was visualized in Northern blots of total cellular and poly(A+) RNA isolated from cardiac ventricular muscle.
(17) The variation of the activity of the peptidase with pH in the presence of various inhibitors was investigated in both control and insulted muscle fibres.
(18) Recent studies have shown that an aberration in platelet-derived growth factor gene expression is unlikely to be a factor in proliferation of smooth-muscle cells.
(19) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
(20) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.
Muscly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The MUSC-induced depolarization could be reversibly blocked by the selective muscarinic-receptor antagonist, atropine, while the DMPP-induced depolarization could be reversibly suppressed by the selective ganglionic nicotinic-receptor antagonist, mecamylamine.
(2) The film Central Intelligence , starring diminutive comic Kevin Hart and muscly giant Dwayne Johnson has the vulgar phallic tagline: “Saving the world takes a little Hart and a big Johnson”.
(3) On one day at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) and two days at the University of Virginia Hospital (UVH) all babies who had or were receiving RBCs comprised the study group.
(4) Receptor-mediated stimulation of the formation of inositol phosphates (IP) in cerebral tissue may serve as a useful tool for studying long-term changes in the function of serotonin-2 (5-HT2), alpha-1-adrenergic (al), and muscarinic-cholinergic (musc) receptors.
(5) I never used to want to do games at school because I was worried about becoming too muscly."
(6) However in literature the medial rupture between muscle and tendon of the musc.
(7) On the MUSC burn service, increased survival has been particularly apparent in patients with burns involving 50-90% of the BSA.
(8) In addition the muscle system of the body core (musc.
(9) He's incredibly physically strong, a muscly bloke, not a willowy thing.
(10) Freeze, thaw and wash with Triton X-100 removed the low affinity [3H]MUSC binding sites.
(11) Binding properties of [3H]flunitrazepam ([3H]FNZ), [3H]ethyl beta-carboline-3-carboxylate ([3H]beta CCE), [3H]muscimol ([3H]MUSC) and [3H]gamma-aminobutyric acid ([3H]GABA) to bovine cortical membranes and to their Triton extracts were studied.
(12) The MUSC burn service is currently investigating the place of aggressive early burn wound excision and grafting with cultured epithelial autografts in achieving this goal.
(13) Flanked by two muscly aides, he later told a news conference: "Those who betray this country – it's time for them to be afraid.
(14) [3H]GABA, after displaced by MUSC, can be further displaced by unlabelled GABA from its binding sites.
(15) The authors relate a neo-natal case of cardiac diverticulum of the right ventricle, reaching the epigastric area and associated with several connected malformations : partial pericardial agenesis, anterior diaphagmatic breach, diastasis of Musc.
(16) The results also support that there are two subclasses of BZ-related GABA binding sites, one is sensitive to GABA only and the other is sensitive to both GABA and MUSC.
(17) Data were obtained by myointegration using surface electrodes on the musc.
(18) In conjunction with this increased availability of transport, there was a statistically significant (p less than 0.02) increase in the number of VLBW neonates transported to MUSC after being delivered in community hospitals.
(19) At 18 other sites, including motor areas in the brain stem, midbrain, and forebrain, no significant changes were found in either MUSC or FLU binding.
(20) The complexity of species found greatly exceeds that anticipated from the fibre-type homogeneity of the muscle and from previous studies (Bandman et al., Cell 29 (1982) 645-50; Lowey et al., J. Musc.