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Pertaining to, or in the region of, the lower jaw and the hyoid apparatus; as, the mylohyoid nerve.

semble the European starlings, and like them are often caged and taught to talk. See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird. [Spelt also mynah.]

A nun. [Obs.]

A nunnery; -- a term still applied to the ruins of certain nunneries in England.

The Dutch equivalent of Mr. or Sir; hence, a Dutchman.

A combining form of Gr. muscle; as, myograph, myochrome.

Inflammation of the myocardium.

The main substance of the muscular wall of the heart inclosed between the epicardium and endocardium.

A colored albuminous substance in the serum from red-colored muscles. It is identical with hemoglobin.

A myotome.

The department of physiology which deals with the principles of muscular contraction; the exercise of muscular force or contraction.

A myodynamometer.

An instrument for measuring the muscular strength of man or of other animals; a dynamometer. Dunglison.

Having the characteristics of both muscle and epithelium; as, the myoepithelial cells of the hydra.

One of the Myogalodæ, a family of Insectivora, including the desman, and allied species.

See Muscle curve, under Muscle.

An instrument for determining and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction.

Of or pertaining to myography.

the study of muscular contraction by the aid of registering apparatus, as by some form of myograph; myology.

A red-colored respiratory pigment found associated with hemoglobin in the muscle tissue of a large number of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate.