retromuscular
retromuscular adjective: behind a muscle.
Adjective
retromuscular (not comparable)
- Behind a muscle
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Origin of retromuscular
From retro- + muscular.
Words formed from retromuscular
Words that rhyme with retromuscular
- muscular
- crepuscular
- unmuscular
- bimuscular
- cardiomuscular
- corpuscular
- corticomuscular
- cutaneomuscular
- dermomuscular
- elastomuscular
- electromuscular
- epimuscular
32 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- epitheliomuscular
- extramuscular
- faciomuscular
- faradomuscular
- fibromuscular
- hepatocardiomuscular
- hypermuscular
- idiomuscular
- intermuscular
- intramuscular
- ligamentomuscular
- majuscular
- nervomuscular
- neuromuscular
- nonmuscular
- osseomuscular
- osteomuscular
- overmuscular
- paramuscular
- perimuscular
- premuscular
- promuscular
- psychoneuromuscular
- seromuscular
- skeletomuscular
- submuscular
- supramuscular
- tendinomuscular
- tendomuscular
- transmuscular
- undermuscular
- unimuscular
Questions about retromuscular
- What does retromuscular mean?
- Retromuscular means behind a muscle.
- What part of speech is retromuscular?
- Retromuscular is an adjective.
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