Collocations withmuscle
These are words often used in combination withmuscle.
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calf muscle
The preventive effect of acetylsalicylic acid is small, and the benefits of compression stockings and calf muscle pumping vary with the clinical situation.
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cardiac muscle
Stationary and drifting spiral waves of excitation in isolated cardiac muscle.
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contracting muscle
It was found that the force generated by contracting muscles changed as a function of the firing rate of upper motor neurons.
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facial muscle
Electromyographic activity over facial muscle regions can differentiate the valence and intensity of affective reactions.
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hamstring muscle
Wasiqi injured a hamstring muscle before the race, but competed nonetheless, literally limping his way through the marathon and finishing last.
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muscle atrophy
Fortunately such muscle atrophy is reversible with suitable exercise.
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muscle biopsy
However, if the diagnosis is suspected clinically, normal serum creatine kinase and electromyography should not put one off muscle biopsy.
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muscle cell
Each point indicates an individual muscle cell recording.
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muscle cramp
These include heart rate arrhythmias, slower heart rate recoveries, muscle cramps and fasciculations, as well as increased or decreased intestinal motility and synchronous diaphragmatic flutter.
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muscle group
The force which a muscle group can produce voluntarily may increase in part because of more complete or more synchronous activation of the muscle.
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muscle mass
Relation of fetal growth to adult muscle mass and glucose tolerance.
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muscle relaxant
It also has direct muscle relaxant and local anaesthetic effects.
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muscle spasm
Cardiovascular changes associated with skeletal muscle spasm in tetraplegic man.
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muscle tissue
These changes are attributed to decreased urethral vascularization, to a decrease in alpha-adrenergic receptors and to smooth muscle tissue atrophy.
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muscle tone
One patient presented with seizures, and one presented with significant decreased muscle tone.
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muscle weakness
A few patients may show male-pattern balding and mild facial and hand muscle weakness.
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oblique muscle
Therefore, the external oblique aponeurosis is split along the line of its fibers, as is the internal oblique muscle.
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opposing muscle
Because the interneuron is inhibitory, it prevents the opposing alpha motor neuron from firing, thereby reducing the contraction of the opposing muscle.
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pectoral muscle
In patients treated without radiation with implants placed in a submuscular location, the recurrences occur almost always in the subcutaneous tissue anterior to the pectoral muscle and implant.
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quadriceps muscle
Extraction of single motor unit firing patterns from the human quadriceps muscle and their role in a novel form of electrotherapy.
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respiratory muscle
Generally, respiratory muscle weakness parallels general weakness, but there are exceptions, and respiratory failure may develop in a fully ambulant patient.
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sphincter muscle
The sphincter muscle will hold the plug in place by the waist, preventing the plug from slipping out unintentionally.
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surrounding muscle
When a perforating vessel is found, it is dissected away from the surrounding muscle and traced to its origin from the vascular pedicle.
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trapezius muscle
Usually the sternocleidomastoid muscle or the trapezius muscle is involved.
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triceps muscle
They are both found deep to the triceps muscle and are located on the spiral groove of the humerus.
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underlying muscle
Below the basal lamina was an interstitial layer (fig. 1, inl) consisting of loosely arranged fibres separating the outer syncytial layer from underlying muscle layers.
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