Phrase Hound found 60 phrases and 3 compound words that contain muscles. The most common are listed below. Open muscles in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
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- beer musclesAn aggressive attitude resulting from consumption of an alcoholic beverage.
- gym musclesLarge, aesthetic, well-developed muscles, especially ones that are believed to be overly large or impractical.
- smooth musclesplural of smooth muscle: Involuntary muscle which is found within the intestines, throat, uterus, and blood vessel walls.
- voluntary musclesplural of voluntary muscle: Muscle that is normally controlled by individual volition; skeletal muscle.
- cardiac musclesplural of cardiac muscle: The striated and involuntary muscle of the vertebrate heart.
- flex one's musclesTo tense and bend one's flexor muscles.
- temporal musclesplural of temporal muscle: A fan-shaped muscle which arises from the surface of the temporal fossa and converges to an aponeurosis which contracts into a thick flat tendon inserted into the coronoid process of the mandible; it serves to …
- oblique musclesplural of oblique muscle: A muscle acting in a direction oblique to the mesial plane of the body, or to the associated muscles, applied especially to two muscles of the eyeball.
- abdominal musclesplural of abdominal muscle: Any of a group of four muscles that form the abdominal wall.
- jaw musclesplural of jaw muscle: The large muscle which runs through the rear part of the cheek from the temporal bone to the lower jaw on each side, raises the lower jaw, and assists in mastication.
- skeletal musclesplural of skeletal muscle: The voluntary muscle of vertebrates, which is striated and anchored by tendons to bone and is used to effect skeletal movement such as locomotion.
- involuntary musclesplural of involuntary muscle: A muscle that is not controlled by individual volition, e.g., cardiac muscle and smooth muscle.
- inferior oblique musclesplural of inferior oblique muscle: A short extraocular muscle that arises from the orbital surface of the maxilla, is inserted slightly in front of and below the superior oblique muscle, and moves the eye upward and laterally.
- papillary musclesplural of papillary muscle: One of several muscles located in the ventricles of the heart and preventing the atrioventricular valves from prolapsing on systole.
- pectoral musclesplural of pectoral muscle: Each of the four large paired muscles covering the front of the rib cage and serve to draw the forelimbs toward the chest.
- ciliary musclesplural of ciliary muscle: a muscle controlling the eye's accommodation for viewing objects at varying distances
- striated musclesplural of striated muscle: Muscle tissue that appears striped under the microscope as a result of the myofibrils being organized into regular units (sarcomeres).
- deltoid musclesplural of deltoid muscle: A triangular muscle on the human shoulder.
- auricular musclesplural of auricular muscle: Any of three muscles attaching the cartilage of the external ear to the skull.
- rectus musclesplural of rectus muscle: A rectus, any of several straight muscles in the body.
- extraocular musclesplural of extraocular muscle: Any of the six small voluntary muscles that pass between the eyeball and the orbit and control the movement and stabilization of the eyeball in relation to the orbit.
- posterior auricular musclesplural of posterior auricular muscle: A muscle that arises from the mastoid process of the temporal bone, inserts into the cranial surface of the concha of the external ear, and acts to retract the external ear.
- superior auricular musclesplural of superior auricular muscle: A muscle that arises from the galea aponeurotica, inserts into the cranial surface of the pinna, and acts to elevate the external ear.
- iris dilator musclesplural of iris dilator muscle: A muscle of the eye, serving to dilate the iris.
- masseter musclesplural of masseter muscle: The large muscle which runs through the rear part of the cheek from the temporal bone to the lower jaw on each side, raises the lower jaw, and assists in mastication.
Compound words 3
- micromusclesplural of micromuscle: A very small muscle.
- outmusclesthird-person singular simple present indicative of outmuscle: To surpass in a contest involving strength.
- hypermusclesplural of hypermuscle: An extremely large, strong muscle.