An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . with the organs of vegetativelife. It is mostly Involuntary, the m. of accommodation formingan apparent exception. Cardiac m. is wholly involuntary, whilethe ordinary skeletal striated m. is voluntarjr. That in the oeso-phagus is an exception, and the ms of respiration are only partiallyvoluntary. [J, 30, i55,175 ; S. P. Gage, Microscope, viii, pp. 225,257.] For ms with special generic names, such a


An illustrated encyclopædic medical dictionaryBeing a dictionary of the technical terms used by writers on medicine and the collateral sciences, in the Latin, English, French and German languages . with the organs of vegetativelife. It is mostly Involuntary, the m. of accommodation formingan apparent exception. Cardiac m. is wholly involuntary, whilethe ordinary skeletal striated m. is voluntarjr. That in the oeso-phagus is an exception, and the ms of respiration are only partiallyvoluntary. [J, 30, i55,175 ; S. P. Gage, Microscope, viii, pp. 225,257.] For ms with special generic names, such as abductor, ad-ductor, etc., see under those names.—Accessory ms. See underAccessorius.—Alar ms, Alary ms. In some insects, ms at- A, ape; A, at; A, ah; A<, all; Ch, chin; Ch, loch (Scottish); E, he; B, ell; G, go: I, die: I, in: N. in: N», tank; 2353 MUSADAMUSCLE tached in pairs to the walls of the pericardial chamber, insertedInto the hypodermis. [L, 66.]—Antagonistic m. See Antago-nist (Istdef.). —Anterior papillary m. One of the columnEe cor-neas of the right ventricle of the heart, attached near the apex andterminating in chordce tendinece attached to the larger cusp of the. THE ELEMENTS OP MUSCULAR TISSUE. (DRAWN BT MRS. S. P. GAGE FROM NATLRE AND FROM STANDARD WORKS ON HISTOLOGY.)1 to 8, QDBtriated or involuiitaiy muscle—1, the general form and relation of the un-Btriped muscle-cells aa Been in their length ; 2, transverse BBction of a bundle of unstripedmuBcnlar fibres or fibre-cells, showing the appearance of the fibres cut at different levels,and consequently only a part sbowjog a nucleus (the cell cement and connective tissue areleft white) ; 3, a muscular fibre-cell from the uterus at the fifth month of gestation ; 4 to6, developing muscular fibre-cells from the uterus; 7, a single muscular fibre-cell from theintestme, ehowiog the spindle form, central nucleus, and longitudinal fibrillation; 8, mus-cular fibre-cells from an artery. 9 to 13, cardiac mu


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