What's the difference between muscular and wiry?

Muscular


Definition:

  • (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.

Wiry


Definition:

  • (a.) Made of wire; like wire; drawn out like wire.
  • (a.) Capable of endurance; tough; sinewy; as, a wiry frame or constitution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Like the strikingly similar landscapes of low wiry vegetation that you can now see in some former rainforest areas in the tropics, these habitats have been created through repeated cycles of cutting and burning.
  • (2) • Finally, if the London Marathon goes ahead on schedule, spare a thought during the day for one runner – a balding, wiry, smiling figure called Joe Derrett.
  • (3) Physically, he has a sort of wiry poise, often standing on the balls of his feet, but there is also something diffident, almost shyly polite, about him.
  • (4) On approach, he looks a bit like the ageing rock star he might have been (he was famously in punk band the Dreamboys with US chatshow host Craig Ferguson in his youth), wiry in dark glasses and heavy boots.
  • (5) Friendship Alfredo Scappaticci, small, barrel-chested with classic Mediterranean olive skin and wiry black hair, was born to an Italian immigrant family in west Belfast in the late 1940s and became a bricklayer.
  • (6) A white English family is described with autosomal dominant woolly wiry hair.
  • (7) At Elay, Oman Nygwo, a wiry 40-year-old in cut-off jeans, gives a tour of deserted huts and points to a line of mango trees that mark his old home on the banks of the Baro.
  • (8) A wiry 57, he arrives for lunch at Bar Pitti on Sixth Avenue, New York City, looking debonair in a cashmere Canali sports jacket.
  • (9) They include Ariyoshi Rune, a tall, wiry 47-year-old truck driver whose slicked-back hair and sideburns are inspired by his idol, Joe Strummer.
  • (10) Vardy weighs 73kg (11st 7lb) and with that wiry frame he looks as if he is not carrying an ounce of fat.
  • (11) "Now he is not just a skinny guy, he's a strong wiry guy," he adds, pride evident.
  • (12) Tall, wiry, a cigarette invariably dangling from his full lips, he had a lopsided grin and a nose that may have been broken in the ring, or the result of hitting himself with a rifle butt to end his military service.
  • (13) At Housmans, in Kings Cross, London – one of the longest-running radical bookshops in the country, launched by a group of pacifists – wiry co-manager Malcolm Hopkins, dressed head to toe in black, pulls up a chair in front of a row of Trotsky biographies and recounts the changes he's seen in the sector in past decades.
  • (14) Photograph: James Harkin for the Guardian We drop in on Amjad, a wiry fellow oppositionist who now considers both sides as bad as each other.
  • (15) Mom – Futurama Named by Forbes as fiction's fourth-richest individual, the ruthless MomCorp CEO is a wiry plutocrat, manufacturing endless platoons of killbots.
  • (16) Dembélé’s wiry strength, control and acceleration stood out while at times like these, it is impossible to look at Alli and realise that he is still only 19.
  • (17) I also like the maidenhair fern Adiantum aleuticum ‘Imbricatum’ ; its wiry black stems have fronds that radiate out like spreading fingers.
  • (18) Small, wiry and dark, Chowdhury recalls the bullets skimming past his right leg as the men opened fire – just as he can recollect the events leading up to the attack.
  • (19) For Herbie, a wiry-haired mongrel, it's a time of mixed emotions.
  • (20) The wiry-haired lawyer turned anti-gambling activist is standing in the gaming room of the Meadow Inn hotel, situated in Fawkner, an unremarkable northern suburb of Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city.