myology

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The late Professor Garrod finds that "from considerations of pterylosis, visceral anatomy, myology, and osteology the screamer cannot be placed along with the Anserine birds."

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  1. noun The scientific study of muscles.

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  • The late Professor Garrod finds that "from considerations of pterylosis, visceral anatomy, myology, and osteology the screamer cannot be placed along with the Anserine birds." —  The Naturalist in La Plata
  • A book of Dr. Moreau's on madness, which he read during these months of mental relaxation, drew from him an acknowledgment wherein he foreshadowed his intention of studying anatomy and myology. —  Balzac
  • A little later came Dugès 'studies of the osteology and myology of developing amphibia (1834), [184] and Coste's careful researches into the early developmental history of mammals. [ —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • This important and growing department will be represented in the ideal gymnasium of the future -- First, by courses, if not by a chair, devoted to the apparatus of measurements of human proportions and symmetry, with a kinesological cabinet where young men are instructed in the elements of auscultation, the use of calipers, the sphygmograph, spirometer, plethysmograph, kinesometer to plot graphic curves, compute average errors, and tables of percentile grades and in statistical methods, etc. Second, anatomy, especially of muscles, bones, heart, and skin, will be taught, and also their physiology, with stress upon myology, the effects of exercise on the flow of blood and lymph, not excluding the development of the upright position, and all that it involves and implies. —  Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
  • Osteology treats of the skeleton, myology of the muscles, angiology of the blood vessels, splanchology the digestive organs or department of the interior, and so on. —  Remarks
 

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  1. = French myologie = Spanish miología = Portuguese myologia = Italian miologia, from Greek μῡς, muscle, + -λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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/maɪˈɑlədʒi/
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