WordNet
n. animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells [syn: muscle]
Usage examples of "muscular tissue".
Fluor, is present in the surface of the bones, in the enamel of the teeth, and in the elastic fibres of the skin, muscular tissue and blood vessels.
Under the thin yellow tissue of fat he discovered a large membrane of red muscular tissue which went continuously from the ear around the lips to the other ear.
He had grown stalks for his eyes, all right, but they'd been limp, just extensions of the jellylike mass of his body, without a stiffening cell-structure or muscular tissue, to move them.
The body of Lacoste was exhumed, the internal organs were extracted, and these, with portions of the muscular tissue, were submitted to analysis by a doctor of Auch, M.
Below the beak sat a long vertical slit, surrounded by flexible muscular tissue.
He had grown stalks for his eyes, all right, but they'd been limp-just extensions of the jellylike mass of his body, without a stiffening cell structure or muscular tissue to move them.
That way he furthered not only muscular tissue, but control over individual muscles as well.
The muscular tissue around the right auricle was discolored and soft.
Kud'ar Mub'at had decided there might be other uses for the empty exoskeleton, and had even spun out from itself enough neurofiber and simple muscular tissue to turn its former shell into a controllable likeness of its own physical form.
The preventing is done by introducing into your muscular tissue a substitute for glycogen, a carbohydrate which affects the restoration of activity to fatigued muscles, and also producing a static status of tissue which is unsympathetic to the formation of any fatigue toxic.
They were no simple flaps of skin, they were muscular tissue, heavily vascularized, their nerve endings providing a great deal of sensory input, their complex ripplings and attitudes providing a body language that humans would never really be able to interpret.