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MUSCULUS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the contractile organs of the body

Synonyms:

muscle; musculus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("musculus" is a kind of...):

contractile organ; contractor (a bodily organ that contracts)

Meronyms (parts of "musculus"):

muscle cell; muscle fiber; muscle fibre (an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musculus"):

skeletal muscle; striated muscle (a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes)

pronator (a muscle that produces or assists in pronation)

supinator (a muscle (especially in the forearm) that produces or assists in supination)

levator (a muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip))

antagonistic muscle ((physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another)

eye muscle; ocular muscle (one of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball)

rectus (any of various straight muscles)

involuntary muscle; smooth muscle (a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart))

anatomical sphincter; sphincter; sphincter muscle (a ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening)

tensor (any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm)

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