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r pertaining to the cubit or ulna; as, the cubital nerve; the cubital artery; the cubital muscle.

The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing. The muscles employed in the act of deglutition. Paley.

f in the form of a triangle with the stem inserted at the middle of the base. -- Deltoid muscle (Anat.), a triangular muscle in the shoulder which serves to move the arm directly upward.

A muscle that depresses or tends to draw down a part. Depressor nerve (Physiol.), a nerve which lowers the activity of an organ; as, the depressor nerve of the heart.

Serving to depress. [R.] "Depriment muscles." Derham.

Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw.

A muscle which dilates any part; a dilator.

A muscle that dilates any part.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.

Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle; -- opposed to proximal.

One of the muscles which open the shell of brachiopods; a cardinal muscle. See Illust. of Brachiopoda.

ikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

A muscle which helps ejaculation.

Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.

A term sometimes applied to the effects (tetanus) produced in the muscles of the limbs, when a current of electricity is passed along the spinal cord or nerves.

A drawing of the body forward, in consequence of the spasmodic action of some of the muscles. Gross.

any internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina.

Pertaining to, or connected with, the endoskeleton; as, endoskeletal muscles.

Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.