(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.
Pectoral
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.
(a.) Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy.
(a.) Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper.
(n.) A covering or protecting for the breast.
(n.) A breastplate, esp. that worn by the Jewish high person.
(n.) A clasp or a cross worn on the breast.
(n.) A medicine for diseases of the chest organs, especially the lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
(2) the medial pectoral and the thoracodorsal nerves, and a shorter time span for nerve regeneration.
(3) Multiple transforming growth factors (TGFs) capable of conferring the neoplastic phenotype on NRK-49F cells without the addition of any other exogenous growth factor in the soft agar assay, were purified from two human solid malignant neoplasms: a squamous lung carcinoma and a pectoral rhabdomyosarcoma.
(4) The ventral subclavius, which was observed for the first time, was discovered to issue, together with the pectoral and the accessory phrenic nerves, from the superior and middle trunks of the brachial plexus.
(5) It is characterized by a nonprogressive bilateral facial paralysis, the inability of the eyes to abduct beyond the midline, orofacial anomalies, limb deficiencies, and an absence or hypoplasia of the pectoral muscles.
(6) It was established that the vein was most often compressed by a long stump of the small pectoral muscle.
(7) With the exception of pectoral muscle weight, dystrophic hybrids exhibited symptoms of dystrophy: high serum CK and high muscle AChE and low LDH levels.
(8) Other important factors include implant position (improved visualization with implant beneath pectoral muscle) and type of mammography performed (slightly more tissue seen with displacement technique).
(9) In 5 of these cases there was also involvement of the underlying pectoral muscles, raising the possibility that some of these may have been of pectoral musculoaponeurotic origin.
(10) The development of the vasculature of the pectoral fin in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, was studied by the dye-injection method.
(11) In 38 patients undergoing femoral artery profundaplasty and in 18 having simple mastectomy with pectoral node biopsy, a 6.2 per cent solution of sodium sulphan blue was injected peripherally to outline the lymph nodes in the groin or axilla.
(12) In 1841 A. POLAND described a rare complex of malformations in the male, characterized a unilateral pectoral muscle defect combined with ipsilateral symbrachydaktyly.
(13) The pulse generator was placed in a subcutaneous pocket in the left pectoral area.
(14) The interaction (SKF x Age) was significant (p < .05) for pectoral and biceps delta ODs.
(15) In order to study the arrangement of the myosin and non-myosin components, A segments which are aggregations of thick filaments held together at the M line were prepared from glycerinated chicken pectoral and rabbit psoas muscles and examined by electron microscopy.
(16) Major pectoral muscle could be used as local flap to obliterate empyema cavity associated with tracheal fistula.
(17) Image standardization based on fat and pectoral muscle signals was necessary for intercase comparisons.
(18) The results of this study therefore indicate that lymphatic cancer cell emboli in the pectoral fascia and muscle are an important risk factor for patients who undergo a modified radical mastectomy.
(19) Feather follicle movement control was studied on feathers of the pectoral tract in the anaesthetized chicken.
(20) As proponents of lesser procedures have called into question the necessity of removing the pectoral muscles in surgery for cancer of the breast, there has been a need to establish accurately the relationship of the lymphatics to the pectoral muscles and their fascia.