Definition of Myoscope

1. an instrument for observing muscular contractions [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myoscope

myopes
myophan
myophosphorylase
myopia
myopias
myopic
myopically
myopics
myopies
myoprecursor
myoprecursors
myops
myopses
myopy
myosarcoma
myoscope (current term)
myoscopes
myoseki
myoses
myoseverin
myosin
myosins
myosis
myositic
myositides
myositis
myositis trichinosa
myositises
myosote
myosotes

Literary usage of Myoscope

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

1. Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the by South Kensington Museum (1876)
"Double myoscope for the examination and demonstration of the laws of muscular contraction. Physiological Institute, Prague. The apparatus allows two nerves ..."

2. Practical and pathological researches on the various forms of paralysis by Edward Meryon (1864)
"... of Boulogne, as a kind of myoscope, for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of muscular irritability, apart from nervous sensibility, which may exist ..."

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