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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 or reflexive control of muscles by nerves.

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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