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Of or pertaining to the shoulder and the hyoid bone; as, the omohyoid muscle.

The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion. Origin of coördinate axes (Math.), the point where the axes intersect. See Note under Ordinate.

Singing birds; a group of the Passeres, having numerous syringeal muscles, conferring musical ability.

Of or relating to parelectronomy; as, the parelectronomic part of a muscle.

A condition of the muscles induced by exposure to severe cold, in which the electrical action of the muscle is reversed.

(Med.), a movement of a part, in order to exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles which ordinarily move the part. -- Passive obedience (as used by writers on government), obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a duty in all cases to the existing government. -- Passive prayer, among mysti…

" Macaulay. No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic. E. Porter. Pathetic muscle (Anat.), the superior oblique muscle of the eye. -- Pathetic nerve (Anat.), the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye. -- The pathetic, a style or manner…

ent and regularity resembling those of a comb; comblike; as, a pectinate leaf; pectinated muscles. See Illust. (e) of Antennæ.

Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.

Surrounding a muscle or muscles.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.

ning to petrous, oe periotic, portion of the skull and the hyoid arch; as, the petrohyoid muscles of the frog.

orless fluid of the blood, in which the red and white blood corpuscles are suspended. -- Muscle plasma (Physiol.), the fundamental part of muscle fibers, a thick, viscid, albuminous fluid contained within the sarcolemma, which on the death of the muscle coagulates to a semisolid mass.

Having several bellies; -- applied to muscles which are made up of several bellies separated by short tendons.

Having numerous vocal muscles; of or pertaining to the Polymyodæ.

ve muscular atrophy (Med.), a nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles. -- Pro*gress"ive*ly, adv. -- Pro*gress"ive*ness, n.

A muscle which produces pronation.

A muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to retractor.

sely hypertrophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.

An internal muscle arising from the lumbar vertebræ and inserted into the femur. In man there are usually two on each side, and the larger one, or great psoas, forms a part of the iliopsoas.