(a.) Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.
(a.) Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
(a.) Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diseases of the gastric musculature, including the inflammatory and endocrine myopathies, muscular dystrophies, and infiltrative disorders, can result in significant gastroparesis.
(2) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
(3) The increased muscular strength in due to a rise of calcaemia, improved muscle contraction and probably also due to the mentioned nutritional factors.
(4) Four clinical cases of subaortic hypertrophic muscular stenosis are discussed.
(5) In 120 consecutive patients who had colonic roentgenologic examination and no depressive sign, two had coccygeal and muscular pain at rectal touch.
(6) These high Danish rates seem to reflect the true prevalence and incidence in the less serious types of progressive muscular dystrophy, probably because the Danish health system with free medical care and easy access to specialized hospital departments makes it possible to identify all cases of progressive muscular dystrophy.
(7) Twenty-nine deletion breakpoints were mapped in 220 kb of the DXS164 locus relative to potential exons of the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy gene.
(8) The investigation included the measurement of heart rate, bioelectrical muscle activity of the right and left M. biceps brachii and M. deltoideus and muscular endurance at 50% MVC.
(9) The integrated use of several energy sources allows high muscular power outputs to be sustained.
(10) A 1-min test of repeated maximal contractions was administered to examine muscular fatiguability before and after training.
(11) This contrasting pattern may be secondary to a reduction in the intensity of mean muscular tremor in the clonidine group.
(12) Calcium-dependent ATPase, adenylate cyclase and phosphorylation of erythrocyte membrane proteins have been found abnormal in various conditions: hereditary spherocytosis, sickle-cell anemia, progressive muscular dystrophies, all of these disorders being associated with a decreased deformability of the erythrocyte.
(13) An enzymatic and immunologic study of 18 patients with trichinosis leads to the following conclusions: The stage of muscular invasion in trichinosis is accompanied by a release of cellular enzymes representative of striated muscle fibres in nearly all the cases.
(14) After the correct diagnosis was established, reconstruction of the muscular defect eliminated the obstruction and reestablished satisfactory bladder function.
(15) DNA studies were undertaken following 53 requests from pregnant women at risk for Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, including 32 in whom there was only 1 affected individual in the family (sporadic cases).
(16) In non-muscular cells, the same type of ordered structure as seen in muscle has not been found yet, but it seems likely that the protein is capable of converting chemical energy into movement.
(17) We found that in the patient's view an adequate result requires establishment of a proper lip sphincter--either by restoring muscular tone, or by creating an anatomical framework to which can be added either a motor unit or stabilization to aid the opposite intact muscle.
(18) Disturbances in muscle electrolytes play an important role in the development of muscular fatigue.
(19) Morphometric assessments were made of right and left ventricular weights, lung volume, axial artery lumen diameter, alveolar number and concentration, and arterial number, concentration and muscularity.
(20) Determination of NPY content by radioimmunoassay, in mucosal and muscular layers of the stomach, indicates that NPY possibly produces cholinergic inhibition under physiological levels.
Physique
Definition:
(n.) The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.
Example Sentences:
(1) Factor analysis by the Jöreskog method was applied to data obtained from measurements of 19 skeletal measurements of human physique, carried out in 1971 on 166 men and 122 women students of the Warsaw Technical University.
(2) Measuring items of the physique were the height, the weight, the chest circumference, the sitting height, and the foot area.
(3) Maternal factors and perinatal outcome of low birth-weight (less than or equal to 2,500 g) infants of 46 adolescent mothers was studied and compared with 160 adolescents who delivered infants weighing greater than 2,500 g. The significant factors found in the low birth-weight group were anaemia, small maternal physique and preterm delivery.
(4) Using the cluster analysis of objects in the space of physique factors the objective classification of peripubertal stage of ontogenesis in girls has been constructed.
(5) In the whole, the results indicate the existence of marked genetic determination of physique's growth and development in a stage under study of human ontogenesis.
(6) In this context, mesomorphy appears to provide the optimum description of physique variation.
(7) An examination of 16 of the 28 children to determine the relationship between their physique, personality, and blood pressure was made.
(8) The well established effect of physique remains, but there is no effect of socio-economic status as assessed by the Registrar-General's classification of the father's occupation.
(9) The volleyball players were the more linear in physique and the better jumpers.
(10) The exact relation between social variables and physique, as part of this triangle, did not yield gracefully to delineation.
(11) The subjects' physiques were assessed using the Health-Carter anthropometric somatotype method.
(12) After Second World War army service, his physique, graceful carriage and radiant grin took him from lift attendant to Broadway and instant movie stardom in The Killers (1946).
(13) Racial variation in physique and body composition are of interest to sport scientists because these characteristics may be related to athletic performance, fitness, strength and injury.
(14) Thus, the perception of somatotype and discrepancy between perceived and preferred physique could significantly differentiate the character traits attributed to body build among male and female children.
(15) As it was supposed that some improvement of the nutrition and physique since the end of the war should make the heart weight heavier, the value on 1,399 cases of medicolegal autopsy was measured and analyzed.
(16) Even his physique answered to 19th century notions of muscular Christianity and a masculine ideal premised on imperial service.
(17) A predictive research design was employed as 56 runners ran each of the three distances and were evaluated for VO2max, running mechanics, physique variables, ventilatory threshold, and anaerobic capacity and power.
(18) In Venezuela, for example, mannequins’ shape have changed in response to the exaggerated ideals of beauty promoted in a country where a plastic surgery-honed physique is the ideal.
(19) If they want to learn how people's health, physiques and attitudes change over time, they have to come here.
(20) In Sussex C ounty, England a computerized school health service records the health a nd physique of school children.