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The junction of bones by intervening muscles.

The distal tendon of a muscle.

A body occurring in small quantity in the juices of muscle, in the lungs, and elsewhere, but especially in the bile, where it is found as a component part of taurocholic acid, from which it can be prepared by decomposition of the acid. It crystallizes in colorless, regular six-sided prisms, and is especially characteri…

lumn under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.

A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex (Physiol.), a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally a sign of disease. See Knee jerk, under Knee.…

or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles. Dr. H. Mere.

etched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.

A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.

hildren, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.

ing the character of tetanus; as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction. This condition of muscle, this fusion of a number of simple spasms into an apparently smooth, continuous effort, is known as tetanus, or tetanic contraction. Foster.

To throw, as a muscle, into a state of permanent contraction; to cause tetanus in. See Tetanus, n., 2.

An instrument from tetanizing a muscle by irritating its nerve by successive mechanical shocks.

rally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm.

Influenced in its contraction by heat or cold; -- said of a muscle.

Muscle or strength; nerve; brawn; sinew. Shak. And I myself, who sat apart And watched them, waxed in every limb; I felt the thews of Anakim, The pules of a Titan's heart. Tennyson.

Furnished with thews or muscles; as, a well-thewed limb.

Having strong or large thews or muscles; muscular; sinewy; strong.

ion apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.

A local and habitual convulsive motion of certain muscles; especially, such a motion of some of the muscles of the face; twitching; velication; -- called also spasmodic tic. Dunglison. Tic douloureux (. Etym: [F., fr. tic a knack, a twitching + douloureux painful.] (Med.) Neuralgia in the face; face ague. See under Fac…

Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles. The muscle, sinew, and vein, Which tile this house, will come again. Donne.