(n.) That part of anatomy which treats of muscles.
Example Sentences:
(1) He treats the facts also of an evolutionary myology point of view.
(2) The myological study of these species revealed the increase of the insertional areas for the cephalic muscles.
(3) In this article we review recent progress in basic myology which will be of interest to clinicians studying the heritable neuromuscular disorders.
(4) The three species examined in this study revealed only minor variations in vascular morphology; these variations appear to be correlated with myological differences among the three species.
(5) The osteology, arthrology and myology of the cervical column in the chicken (Gallus gallus L.) are described.
(6) Myology has greatly benefited from the recent unification of concepts in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology.
(7) The ratios can be applied to individual muscles, thus linking structural and functional myology in an exact way.
(8) In recognition that this foundation sets the stage for the rapid elucidation of the disease's pathogenesis, we review the experimental basis of such advances, with reference to relevant progress in basic myology, pathology, and molecular biology.
(9) Wagner tree analyses were conducted to assess the value of these myological characters in phylogenetic studies of platyrrhines.
(10) A certain centralization of myological diagnoses, therapy and rehabilitation seems appropriate.
(11) The myology of the fore-limb of the Aardvark, Orycteropus afer (Pallas 1766) (Tubulidentata, Mammalia) is redescribed on the basis of the dissection of two specimens.
(12) The section on myology comprises a detailed description of the occipito-cervical, ventral and dorsal subsystems of the cervical column.
(13) They begin with an evolutionary-myological study of m. extensor hallucis longus and of m. extensor digitorum longus, together with m. peroneus tertius.
(14) It reveals how the evolutionary myology can be used to prove the morphological evolution of any muscle.
(15) Recent evolutionary myological researches on the m. peroneus digiti IV and m. peroneus digiti V in Man have shown that these muscles had been at first an inseparable component of his peroneal musculature.
(16) The conclusion is that the osteological and myological adaptations of the flipper are designed to enable the penguin to progress very effectively through water, while the vascular adaptations provide a highly efficient mechanism for thermoregulation.
(17) Dissections, manipulation of ligamentary preparations, analysis of limb proportions, and quantitative aspects of forelimb myology are used to correlate forelimb morphology in fur seals and sea lions (sub-family Otariinae) with previously published data as to their locomotor function (English, '76a).
(18) The author presents the evolutionary myology as a complex research method by which the morphological transformation of human muscles could be proved.
(19) Muscular imaging (sonography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging) has proved to be worthwhile for myologic diagnostic purposes during the past few years.
(20) The purpose of this paper is to describe in detail the shoulder myology of the La Plata River Dolphin, Pontoporia blainvillei, and to review the literature on cetacean shoulder myology.
Myotomy
Definition:
(n.) The dissection, or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection, of muscles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fourteen patients were examined one to four years after cricopharyngeal myotomy that had been carried out because of dysfunction of the pharyngo-esophageal sphincter.
(2) To improve the slightly disappointing voice rehabilitation results of the myotomized laryngectomees, a modified myotomy is proposed.
(3) In addition, we performed cricopharyngeal myotomy to prevent postoperative deglutition disorders.
(4) Combined medical treatment with amiodarone and diltiazem proved to be an effective alternative to surgical myotomy of the bridge.
(5) Although the operative technique for longitudinal ileal myotomy has the benefit of simplicity compared with construction of an ileal reservoir, the latter techniques, which have been used clinically on an extensive basis, are more likely to produce a consistent distension that is suitable for fecal storage.
(6) This finding is of relevance to the controversy surrounding cricopharyngeal myotomy in combination with pouch excision.
(7) Nineteen cases with major resections of the head and neck were treated with laryngeal suspension and cricopharyngeal myotomy in an attempt to allow swallowing function postoperatively and avoid a total laryngectomy.
(8) One of the myotomy wounds was filled with yellow-green material that extended from the base of the tail along the ventrolateral aspect of the rectum and into the peritoneal cavity.
(9) The authors found that having an endoscope in the esophagus during the operation facilitated exposure and was vital to determine the appropriate length of the myotomy.
(10) The procedure used restricted the myotomy to the diseased portion of the esophagus, as demonstrated manometrically.
(11) In one case there was, however, marked dyskinesia, requiring further myotomy.
(12) Three infants born with esophageal atresia that was repaired by end-to-end anastomosis combined with a circular myotomy on the upper segment are reported.
(13) Usually, a repeat myotomy was performed via an abdominal approach if the initial Heller's operation proved a failure, or via a thoracic approach if extensive motor disorders were discovered at manometry.
(14) Treatment, which may be simple excision or myotomy, does not correct the basic motor abnormality that is often associated with the diverticulum.
(15) The importance of the inferior myotomy for speech restoration in total laryngectomized patients following not only primary techniques (speech restoration by tracheo-esophageal puncture during total laryngectomy) but also secondary punctures, is well documented.
(16) The authors tested echocardiography as a method of guiding myotomy, and observed its clinical usefulness as a safe surgical procedure for IHSS.
(17) If healing proved to be satisfactory the procedure might eliminate the need for primary or secondary myotomy or pharyngeal plexus neurectomy to facilitate tracheoesophageal speech.
(18) Clinical improvement in 4 of 5 patients who underwent UES myotomy for severe intractable dysphagia did not always correlate with improvement in manometric and cine studies.
(19) The results of myotomy in children with achalasia are satisfactory but a significant number may develop gastro-oesophageal reflux.
(20) From initial attempts to eliminate the outflow tract obstruction by myotomy, the subvalvular myectomy was developed in which an about 1 cm wide section of muscle is resected; this procedure can be carried out from a transaortic, transatrial or transventricular approach [4, 9, 21, 22, 24, 38, 39, 47].