单词 | electro-muscular |
释义 | > as lemmaselectro-muscular electro-muscular adj. Brit. /ᵻˌlɛktrə(ʊ)ˈmʌskjᵿlə/ , U.S. /əˌlɛktroʊˈməskjələr/ , /iˌlɛktroʊˈməskjələr/ [after French électromusculaire (1849)] of or relating to the electrical activity of muscle; (in later use also) designating or relating to devices that alter muscular activity by the discharge of electricity.ΚΠ 1850 Lancet 7 Sept. 298/1 The author [sc. Duchenne] rejects the word ‘irritability’ adopted by authors for the muscular contractility which manifests itself by galvanic power and substitutes for it the term ‘electro-muscular contractility’. 1870 T. Holmes Syst. Surg. (ed. 2) IV. 179 When a healthy muscle is made to contract by means of electricity, it becomes the seat of a peculiar pain, which is called electro-muscular sensibility. 1919 J. R. Jacoby & G. W. Jacoby Electr. in Med. 388 The state of electromuscular sensibility is examined only with difficulty if cutaneous sensibility be normal. 2003 Daily Tel. 18 Apr. 6/2 The Taser ‘electro-muscular disruption’ gun..was not intended to replace conventional guns. < as lemmas |
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