myograph

[ mahy-uh-graf, -grahf ]

noun

1. an instrument for recording the contractions and relaxations of muscles.

myograph

/ -ˌɡræf; maɪˈɒɡrəfɪ; ˈmaɪəˌɡrɑːf /

noun

1. an instrument for recording tracings ( myograms ) of muscular contractions

Derived Forms

• myography, noun
• ˌmyoˈgraphically, adverb
• ˌmyoˈgraphic, adjective

Other Words From

• my·o·graph·ic [mahy-, uh, -, graf, -ik], adjective
• myo·graphi·cal·ly adverb
• my·og·ra·phy [mahy-, og, -r, uh, -fee], noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of myograph¹

First recorded in 1865–70; myo- + -graph

Example Sentences

Myocardī′tis, inflammation of the myocardium; Myocar′dium, the muscular substance of the heart; Myodynā′mia, muscular force; My′ogram, the tracing of a contracting and relaxing muscle by the myograph; My′ograph, an instrument for noting and recording muscular contractions.—adjs.

From Project Gutenberg

Myograph′ic, -al, relating to myography.—ns.

From Project Gutenberg

Never was the human body as a machine so understood, never did it give such an account of itself, as it now does in the legible handwriting of the cardiograph, the sphygmograph, the myograph, and other self-registering contrivances, with all of which the student of to-day is expected to be practically familiar.

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Fick’s pendulum myograph or muscle-trace recorder is described in Vierteljahrsschr. der naturforsch.

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Mechanical response—Different kinds of stimuli—Myograph—Characteristics of response-curve: period, amplitude, form—Modification of response-curves.

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