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  • English Word Myoid Definition Composed of, or resembling, muscular fiber.
  • English Word Myolemma Definition Sarcolemma.
  • English Word Myolin Definition The essential material of muscle fibers.
  • English Word Myologic Definition Alt. of Myological
  • English Word Myological Definition Of or pertaining to myology.
  • English Word Myologist Definition One skilled in myology.
  • English Word Myology Definition That part of anatomy which treats of muscles.
  • English Word Myoma Definition A tumor consisting of muscular tissue.
  • English Word Myomancy Definition Divination by the movements of mice.
  • English Word Myomorph Definition One of the Myomorpha.
  • English Word Myomorpha Definition An extensive group of rodents which includes the rats, mice, jerboas, and many allied forms.
  • English Word Myopathia Definition Any affection of the muscles or muscular system.
  • English Word Myopathic Definition Of or pertaining to myopathia.
  • English Word Myopathy Definition Same as Myopathia.
  • English Word Myope Definition A person having myopy; a myops.
  • English Word Myophan Definition A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain Infusoria.
  • English Word Myopia Definition Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.
  • English Word Myopic Definition Pertaining to, or affected with, or characterized by, myopia; nearsighted.
  • English Word Myopsis Definition The appearance of muscae volitantes. See Muscae volitantes, under Musca.
  • English Word Myopy Definition Myopia.
  • English Word Myosin Definition An albuminous body present in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma.
  • English Word Myosis Definition Long-continued contraction of the pupil of the eye.
  • English Word Myositic Definition Myotic.
  • English Word Myositis Definition Inflammation of the muscles.
  • English Word Myosotis Definition A genus of plants. See Mouse-ear.
  • English Word Myotic Definition Producing myosis, or contraction of the pupil of the eye, as opium, calabar bean, etc.
  • English Word Myotic Definition A myotic agent.
  • English Word Myotome Definition A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma.
  • English Word Myotome Definition One of the embryonic muscular segments arising from the protovertebrae; also, one of the protovertebrae themselves.
  • English Word Myotome Definition The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.