Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tracing of a contracting and relaxing muscle drawn by a myograph.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) See Muscle curve, under
muscle .
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- noun biology The
contraction curve of amuscle , inscribed upon a prepared surface by means of amyograph .
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- noun a graphical recording of muscle activity
Etymologies
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myo- + -gram
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Examples
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(A) The flexion-reflex (spinal) commonly has a d'emblée opening; that is, a steep initial contraction passes abruptly into a plateau, giving an approximately rectangular beginning to the myogram.
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