myotaticadj.
/ˌmʌɪə(ʊ)ˈtatɪk/, U.S. /ˌmaɪoʊˈtædɪk/ Physiology.
Designating or relating to a muscular contraction, usually a reflex one, that occurs as a result of stretching the muscle.
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extensive1646
abducent1649
peristaltic1652
metaleptic1656
spastic1822
spasmodic1836
ideomotor1854
idiomuscular1860
fibrillary1875
motor1878
myotatic1881
antergic1890
isometric1891
isotonic1891
neurogenic1901
synkinetic1901
ballistic1905
motoric1926
1881 W. R. Gowers Epilepsy 100 The myotatic irritability of the muscles is lost.
1881 W. R. Gowers Diagnosis Dis. Spinal Cord (ed. 2) ii. 29 It seems..desirable to discard the term ‘tendon-reflex’ altogether... They may be termed ‘tendon-muscular phenomena’, but the intervention of tendons is not necessary for their production; the one condition which all have in common is that passive tension is essential for their occurrence, and they may more accurately be termed myotatic contractions.
1924 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 96 240 Myotatic reflexes could embrace stretch-reflexes in general, including ‘jerk’ and ‘clonus’, which we regard as fractional forms of the complete and fully functional myotatic reflex.
1972 J. A. Wilson Princ. Animal Physiol. xi. 438/1 The peak of reflex tension in a myotatic reflex occurs at the time of completion of the stretch movement.
1990 Physiotherapy 76 742/1 (title) A review of myotatic reflexes and the development of motor control and gait in infants and children.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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