MUSCULATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does musculature mean? 

• MUSCULATURE (noun)
  The noun MUSCULATURE has 1 sense:

1. the muscular system of an organism

  Familiarity information: MUSCULATURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSCULATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The muscular system of an organism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

muscle system; muscular structure; musculature

Hypernyms ("musculature" is a kind of...):

system (a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts)

Meronyms (parts of "musculature"):

muscle; muscular tissue (animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells)

ligament (a sheet or band of tough fibrous tissue connecting bones or cartilages or supporting muscles or organs)

sinew; tendon (a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "musculature"):

diaphragm; midriff ((anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration)

esophagus; gorge; gullet; oesophagus (the passage between the pharynx and the stomach)

Holonyms ("musculature" is a part of...):

musculoskeletal system (the system of muscles and tendons and ligaments and bones and joints and associated tissues that move the body and maintain its form)

 Context examples 

Mechanisms of alteration include induction or inhibition of blood flow to the corpus cavernosa and nerve stimuli to the penile musculature.

(Penile Erectile Alteration, NCI Thesaurus)

Any component associated with of the base of the skull and facial bones, sinuses, orbits, salivary glands, oral cavity, oropharynx, larynx, thyroid, facial and neck musculature and lymph nodes draining these areas.

(Head and Neck Part, NCI Thesaurus)

This results in flaccid paralysis of worm musculature allowing the worm to become dislodged by peristalsis and expelled from the body.

(Piperazine Citrate, NCI Thesaurus)

Secretions and fluids from the area of the body generally construed to comprise base of skull and facial bones, sinuses, orbits, salivary glands, oral cavity, oropharynx, larynx, thyroid, facial and neck musculature and lymph nodes draining these areas.

(Head and Neck Fluids and Secretions, NCI Thesaurus)

For oncology, area of the body generally construed to comprise base of skull and facial bones, sinuses, orbits, salivary glands, oral cavity, oropharynx, larynx, thyroid, facial and neck musculature and lymph nodes draining these areas.

(Murine Head and Neck, NCI Thesaurus)

For oncology, an area of the body generally construed to comprise the base of skull and facial bones, sinuses, orbits, salivary glands, oral cavity, oropharynx, larynx, thyroid, facial and neck musculature and lymph nodes draining these areas.

(Head and Neck, NCI Thesaurus)