…a band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body…
…a band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body…
…a band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body…
…any of a number of bivalve mollusks with a brown or purplish-black shell…
…force one’s way into (something), typically in order to gain an advantage…
…muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils are not highly ordered, occurring in the gut and other internal organs and not under voluntary control…
…any of several muscles enabling the thumb to be moved toward a finger of the same hand…
…each of the four large paired muscles that cover the front of the rib cage and serve to draw the forelimbs toward the chest…
…a muscle that is connected to the skeleton to form part of the mechanical system that moves the limbs and other parts of the body…
…muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils in the cells are aligned in parallel bundles, so that their different regions form stripes visible in a microscope. Muscles of this type are attached to the skeleton by tendons and are under voluntary control…
…each of six small voluntary muscles controlling movement of the eyeball within the socket…
…a psychological disorder marked by a negative body image and an obsessive desire to have a muscular physique…
…a large, strong man, especially one employed to protect someone or to intimidate people…
…the normal level of firmness or slight contraction in a resting muscle…
…the part of the eye that connects the iris to the choroid. It consists of the ciliary muscle (which alters the curvature of the lens), a series of radial ciliary processes (from which the lens is suspended by ligaments), and the ciliary ring (which adjoins the choroid)…
…a muscle whose contraction dilates an organ or aperture, such as the pupil of the eye…
…a muscle whose contraction bends a limb or other part of the body…
…any of three muscles in each buttock that move the thigh, the largest of which is the gluteus maximus…
…a triangular muscle that passes from the pelvis through the groin on either side and, together with the psoas, flexes the hip…
…a muscle whose contraction causes the raising of a part of the body…
…a broad muscle in the lower calf, below the gastrocnemius, that flexes the foot to point the toes downward…
…a muscle whose contraction moves a limb or part away from the midline of the body, or from another part…
…a muscle whose contraction moves a limb or other part of the body toward the midline of the body or toward another part…
…a muscle whose contraction narrows a vessel or passage…
…the muscle of the spermatic cord, by which the testicle can be partially raised…
…a muscle whose contraction pulls down the part of the body to which it is attached…
…a muscle that forms a layer of the wall of the bladder…
…each of a pair of muscles that run under the jaw and act to open it…
…a muscle whose contraction extends or straightens a limb or other part of the body…
…a slender superficial muscle of the inner thigh…
…a muscle that runs through the rear part of the cheek from the temporal bone to the lower jaw on each side and closes the jaw in chewing…
…a long, narrow muscle running obliquely across the front of each thigh from the hipbone to the inside of the leg below the knee…
…any of two pairs of muscles attached to the vertebrae in the neck and upper back that draw back the head…
…either of a pair of large triangular muscles extending over the back of the neck and shoulders and moving the head and shoulder blade…
…the chief muscle of the calf of the leg, which flexes the knee and foot. It runs to the Achilles tendon from two heads attached to the femur…
…the part of the eye that connects the iris to the choroid. It consists of the ciliary muscle (which alters the curvature of the lens), a series of radial ciliary processes (from which the lens is suspended by ligaments), and the ciliary ring (which adjoins the choroid)…
…each of a pair of long muscles that connect the sternum, clavicle, and mastoid process of the temporal bone and serve to turn and nod the head…
