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Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. "Brawny limbs." W. Irving.

essive use of bromine or one of its compounds. It is characterized by mental dullness and muscular weakness.

Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocardris and Pericarditis. Dunglison.

the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.

A series of muscular contractions due to sudden stretching of the muscle, -- a sign of certain neuropathies.

The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical. Of conation, in other words, of desire and will. J. S. Mill.

To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain. With emotions which checked his voice and convulsed his powerful frame. Macaulay.

An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.

nd combine so as to produce harmonious action; to adjust; to harmonize; as, to coördinate muscular movements.

monious results; harmonious adjustment; as, a coördination of functions. "Coördination of muscular movement by the cerebellum." Carpenter.

or diminishing the capacity for movement, as depressomotor nerves, which lower or inhibit muscular activity. -- n.

The muscular and tendinous partition separating the cavity of the chest from that of the abdomen; the midriff.

at pieces against the city. Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. H. Spencer.

A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.

An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery.

in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction.

The delicate bands of connective tissue interspersed among muscular fibers.

ch impressions are transmitted to a nerve center and then reflected back so as to produce muscular contraction without sensation or volition.

A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the rids and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.