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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or affecting both nerves and muscles.
- adjective Having the characteristics of both nervous and muscular tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to nerve and to muscle; especially, resembling or partaking of the nature both of nervous and of muscular tissue; having a character intermediate between that of muscle and that of nerve; representing or physiologically acting both as a nerve and as a muscle: as, the neuromuscular cells of the freshwater polyp (Hydra).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Nervomuscular.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to the
voluntary orreflexive control ofmuscles bynerves .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective affecting or characteristic of both neural and muscular tissue
Etymologies
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neuro- + muscular
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