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Definition of Muscularity

1. Noun. The physiological state of having or consisting of muscle.

2. Noun. Possessing muscular strength.

3. Noun. An imaginative lively style (especially style of writing). "A remarkable muscularity of style"

Definition of Muscularity

1. n. The state or quality of being muscular.

Definition of Muscularity

1. Noun. musculature ¹

2. Noun. (bodybuilding) The degree to which the muscles in a body part are developed. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Muscularity

1. [n -TIES]

Medical Definition of Muscularity

1. The state or quality of being muscular. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscularity

muscular rheumatism muscular sense muscular structure muscular substance of prostate muscular system muscular tissue muscular tonus muscular triangle muscular trophoneurosis muscular tunic of gallbladder

muscular tunics muscularis muscularis mucosae muscularities muscularity (current term) muscularize muscularized muscularizes muscularizing muscularly

muscularness musculation musculations musculature musculatures muscule musculi musculi abdominis musculi arrectores pilorum

Literary usage of Muscularity

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

1. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1913)
"... that, in the human subject, he discovered the muscularity of the yet the dorsal vessel was too conspicuous a structure to be overlooked. ..."

2. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1853)
"Renewed Inquiries concerning the Spiral Structure of Muscle, with Observations on the muscularity of Cilia. By MARTIN BARRY, MD, FRS1 (From the ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1853)
"muscularity of the Valve which closes the Foramen Ovale.—Dr. PEACOCK exhibited to the Pathological Society of London (19th Oct.) a series of preparations ..."

4. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1852)
"Philp and Whicker, of St. James's-street.- Lancet, Feb. 7, 1852, p. 146. 113.—ON THE muscularity OF THE URETHRA AND SPASMODIC STRICTURE. ..."

5. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"... mendous muscularity, that feline ductility, which the living tiger of the Jardin des Plantes, surlily pacing back and forth in his narrow cage, ..."

6. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1815)
"On the muscularity of the Uterus. By CHARLES BELL, Esq. FRS Ed.; and Teacher of Anatomy in Great Windmill Street. ..."

7. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1829)
"OF THE muscularity OF THE UTERUS. I HAVE dissected the gravid uterus in all conditions : in women who, in consequence of fever, died undelivered ; in women ..."

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