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A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog.

One of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of Anthozoa into chambers.

Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted drinking water. -- Milk snake (Zoöl.), a harmless American snake (Ophibolus triangulus, or O. exi…

Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted water.

Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight. [Colloq.]

involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.

The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts.

The quality or state of being musculous; muscularity. [Obs.]

Muscular. [Obs.] Jonhson.

Pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism or neuralgia.

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

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

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

Derived from epithelial cells and destined to become a part of the muscular system; -- applied to structural elements in certain embryonic forms.

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

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

Composed of, or resembling, muscular fiber.

A tumor consisting of muscular tissue.

Any affection of the muscles or muscular system.

A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma.