musculus (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *musculus*:
NOUN	body	musculus, muscle	one of the contractile organs of the body

English > *musculus*: 1 sense > noun 1, body
Meaning	One of the contractile organs of the body.
Synonym	muscle
Parts	muscle cell, muscle fiber, muscle fibre	An elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body
Narrower	antagonistic muscle	(physiology) a muscle that opposes the action of another
	levator	A muscle that serves to lift some body part (as the eyelid or lip)
	ocular muscle, eye muscle	One of the small muscles of the eye that serve to rotate the eyeball
	pronator	A muscle that produces or assists in pronation
	rectus	Any of various straight muscles
	skeletal muscle, striated muscle	A muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton
	smooth muscle, involuntary 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)
	sphincter, anatomical sphincter, sphincter muscle	A ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening
	supinator	A muscle (especially in the forearm) that produces or assists in supination
	tensor	Any of several muscles that cause an attached structure to become tense or firm
Broader	contractile organ, contractor	A bodily organ that contracts
Spanish	músculo
Catalan	múscul

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