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Definition of Muscular

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or consisting of muscle. "Muscular contraction"

2. Adjective. Having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer.

3. Adjective. Having or suggesting great physical power or force. "The muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony"

4. Adjective. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful. "Powerful arms"

Definition of Muscular

1. a. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.

Definition of Muscular

1. Adjective. Of, relating to, or connected with muscles. ¹

2. Adjective. Brawny, having strength. ¹

3. Adjective. Having large, well-developed muscles. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Muscular

1. pertaining to muscle [adj]

Medical Definition of Muscular

1. Pertaining to or composing muscle. Origin: L. Muscularis This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscular

musclings muscly muscoid muscoids muscology muscone muscones muscose muscosity muscovado

muscovados muscovite muscovites muscovy duck muscular (current term) muscular Christianity muscular artery muscular asthenopia muscular atrophy muscular branches

muscular coat muscular coat of bronchi muscular coat of colon muscular coat of ductus deferens muscular coat of female urethra muscular coat of gallbladder muscular coat of oesophagus muscular coat of pharynx muscular coat of rectum

Literary usage of Muscular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Idin. Med., Berlin, 1883, vii, 15-35. (b) The muscular Atrophies Due to Degenerations of the Lower Motor Neurons Progressive Neuropathic and ..."

2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"From these vessels numerous branches are given off, which pierce the muscular coat, supplying it and forming an intricate plexus in the submucous tissue. ..."

3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1895)
"It has been thought by some that the muscular sense was materially aided by the ... It has been held by some, that the centres of perception of the muscular ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"The Rhythm of muscular Responses to Volitional Impulses in Man. your, of Phys., ... The average rate of muscular response to volitional impulses is ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1886)
"The Rhythm of muscular Responses to Volitional Impulses in Man. your, of Phys., ... The average rate of muscular response to volitional impulses is ..."

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