muscular : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a form of muscular dystrophy that sets in in adolescence or adulthood and progresses slowly but will affect all voluntary muscles; characterized by generalized weakness and muscle wasting that affects limb and trunk muscles first; similar to Duchenne's muscular dystrophy but less severe; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males)
  

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• noun a form of muscular dystrophy that sets in between 40 and 60 years of age and is characterized by weakness and wasting of the muscles of the hands and forearms and lower legs; inheritance is autosomal dominant
  

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• noun the most common form of muscular dystrophy; inheritance is X-linked recessive (carried by females but affecting only males)
  pseudohypertrophic dystrophy.
  

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E*lec`tro-mus"cu*lar adjective

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1. (Physiol.) Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.

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• (Physiol.), irregularity in movements resulting from inharmonious action of the muscles in consequence of loss of voluntary control over them.

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• noun an autosomal recessive form of muscular dystrophy that appears anywhere from late childhood to middle age; characterized by progressive muscular weakness beginning either in the shoulder or pelvic girdle; usually progresses slowly with cardiopulmonary complications in the later stages
  

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• one who believes in a part of religious duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state. T. Hughes.

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• . (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who believe that it is a part of religious duty to maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as conductive to good health, good morals, and right feelings in religious matters. T. Hughes. (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. C. Kingsley.

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• noun (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
  muscle contraction; contraction.
  

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• noun any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles
  dystrophy.
  

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• (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability.

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• (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bodies and the resistance offering by external objects.

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• noun the muscular system of an organism
  musculature; muscle system.
  

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• noun animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells
  muscle.
  

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• noun normal tonicity of the muscles
  muscle tone.
  
  • exercise improves muscle tone

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• noun a severe form of muscular dystrophy marked by generalized weakness and muscular wasting that affects the face and feet and hands and neck; difficult speech and difficulty with the hands that spreads to the arms and shoulders and legs and hips; the onset can be any time from birth to middle age and the progression is slow; inheritance is autosomal dominant
  Steinert's disease; myotonia atrophica; myotonic dystrophy.
  

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• noun a form of muscular dystrophy that usually begins between early adulthood and middle age and first affects muscles of the eyelid and throat; progresses slowly with swallowing problems common as the disease progresses; inheritance is autosomal dominant
  

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• (Med.), a nervous disorder characterized by continuous atrophy of the muscles.

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