myography

Noun

myography (countable and uncountable, plural myographies)

1. The scientific study of muscles, typically via myographs.
   • As there is no adequate description of recent developments in the technique of myography, it may be useful if an account is given of the torsion- wire myograph and of other details of procedure […] Successful measurement of such relatively brief intervals as the latent period and the period of...1926, John Farquhar Fulton, Muscular Contraction and the Reflex Control of Movement, page 541
   • Wire myography is an in vitro technique that allows us to examine functional responses and vascular reactivity of isolated small resistance arteries. […] The four-channel myograph is most commonly used, because it allows the simultaneous study of four vessels in individual organ baths. Other models...2008 February 2, Angela Spiers, Neal Padmanabhan, “A Guide to Wire Myography”, in Jérôme P. Fennell, editor, Hypertension: Methods and Protocols, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, pages...