Definition of Myoid

1. Adjective. Resembling muscle.

Partainyms: Muscle

Definition of Myoid

1. a. Composed of, or resembling, muscular fiber.

Definition of Myoid

1. Adjective. (anatomy) Composed of, or resembling muscle ¹

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Definition of Myoid

1. resembling muscle [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myoid

myoglobinuria
myoglobinurias
myoglobinuric
myoglobulin
myoglobulins
myogram
myograms
myograph
myographic
myographical
myographies
myographs
myography
myohaematin
myohaematins
myoid (current term)
myoinositol
myoinositols
myokine
myokymia
myokymias
myokymic
myolemma
myolemmata
myologic
myological
myologies
myologist
myologists
myology

Literary usage of Myoid

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

1. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1908)
"Urn. ex., membrana limitans externa. my., myoid. my. bac., myoid of ... myoid of cone. my. con. dst., myoid of far cone. my. con. prx., myoid of near cone. ..."

2. Ophthalmic review (1888)
"The apex of a cone whose myoid is of maximum length reaches beyond the summit of ... Whatever the length of the myoid may be, the form and dimensions of the ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1878)
"Had large multilobar, very dense fibro-myoid tumour ten years. ... Pelvic and abdominal fibro-myoid had existed a year or more ; stony, hard, ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"It is divided into an outer, longitudinally fibrillar, ellipsoid portion, and an inner contractile myoid portion. The non-contractile ellipsoid is said to ..."

5. General Physiology: An Outline of the Science of Life by Max Verworn (1899)
"The slightest stimulus which acts upon the latter is conducted centripetally to the cell-body, and from there centrifugally to the myoid-fibre, ..."

6. Verhandlungen des X. Internationalen medicinischen congresses: Berlin, 4.-9 by László Farkas, Congress Internationale Medicinische (1891)
"Pelvic myo-fibroid. Kimball. XL\7I. Pelvic and abdominal fibro-myoid. ... Large multilobar, abdominal pelvic fibro- myoid. Metrorrhagia. ..."

7. A Theoretical and Practical Treatise Upon the Ligature of Arteries by Pierre Joseph Manec, John William Garlick, William Charles Copperthwaite (1832)
"This incision must correspond about half an inch above the clavicle. Having made a section of the skin and the platysma-myoid, the mastoid muscles ..."

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