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Definition of Muscular contraction

1. Noun. (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscular Contraction

Literary usage of Muscular contraction

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)
"(a) Testing the Sense of muscular contraction In order to prevent complication with cutaneous sensibility, an arm or a leg is placed in such a position that ..."

2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1891)
"A muscular contraction itself is essentially a translocation of molecules, a change of form not of bulk. We cannot say however anything definite as to the ..."

3. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1890)
"Feelings of muscular contraction. Readers versed in psychological literature will ... In other words, muscular contraction is only indirectly instrumental, ..."

4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"A muscular contraction itself is essentially a translocation of molecules, a change of form not of bulk. We cannot however say anything definite as to the ..."

5. Fatigue and Efficiency: A Study in Industry by Josephine Clara Goldmark (1912)
"(a) THE CHEMISTRY OF muscular contraction: ... SUPPLIED AND CONSUMED Every voluntary muscular contraction is due to the stimulus received from the central ..."

6. Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations by David Hartley (1834)
"The Phenomena of muscular Contraction appear to be sufficiently agreeable to the Doctrine of Vibrations. IN order to shew this, let us make the following ..."

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