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Muscular tissue   /mˈəskjələr tˈɪsjˌu/   Listen
Muscular tissue

noun
1.
Animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells.  Synonym: muscle.





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"Muscular tissue" Quotes from Famous Books



... peaceable rhinoceros beetle, on this subject. To get at the exact nature of the materials, instead of pulverizing the whole insect in a mortar, I use merely the muscular tissue obtained by scraping the inside of the dried Oryctes' corselet. Or else I extract the dry contents of the hind legs. I do the same with the desiccated corpses of the cockchafer, the Capricorn, or Cerambyx beetle, and the ...
— The Life of the Fly - With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography • J. Henri Fabre
... research is of special interest because it connects him with his father's work. He made special observations with the microscope of the muscular tissue of the iris of the eye, illustrated his paper by delicate drawings of his own, and published it in the leading microscopical journal. This and a subsequent paper on the phenomena of 'Goose-skin' attracted some attention among physiologists ...
— Victorian Worthies - Sixteen Biographies • George Henry Blore


Words linked to "Muscular tissue" :   cardiac muscle, muscular structure, striated muscle tissue, heart muscle, muscle system, smooth muscle, musculature, animal tissue, tonus, tone, tonicity


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