having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer
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having or suggesting great physical power or force
<adj.all> the muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony
(of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful
<adj.all> a hefty athlete a muscular boxer powerful arms
Muscular \Mus"cu*lar\, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See {Muscle}.] 1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.
Great muscular strength, accompanied by much awkwardness. --Macaulay.
2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles. ``The muscular motion.'' --Arbuthnot.
3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm.
{Muscular Christian}, one who believes in a part of religious duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state. --T. Hughes.
{Muscular Christianity}. (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who believe that it is a part of religious duty to maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as conductive to good health, good morals, and right feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes. (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
{Muscular excitability} (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability; contractility.
{Muscular sense} (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bodies and the resistance offering by external objects.
Hans Gregory Ashbaker's muscular tenor coped quite successfully with the father's florid mad scene, and there were fine cameos from Stella Zambalis and Arturo Valencia as well as solid contributions from the large and busy chorus.
The station is an enormous pile of granite and marble, bulging with muscular horses and men and sheathed in semi-Roman vaulting.
Yet the company is solidly profitable, has shown increased earnings in most years recently and sports a muscular balance sheet: Its total debt is less than 20% of total capital.
However, the Clinton administration is under pressure from US labour unions to take a muscular stance against 'social dumping' - the loss of trade, investment and jobs to low-wage countries. Washington's interest in the issue is also long-standing.
For 10 years, the 44-year-old business owner has relied on a motorized cart because of her muscular dystrophy.
Ultimately, the researchers say, their efforts will yield drugs or other therapies to halt muscular dystrophy early in life, so thousands of future victims might live normal lives.
Mr. Mayne, muscular with light brown hair, is a Kaffa-Pitta combination.
About this time, a series of advances in genetics culminated in the discovery that muscular dystrophy was caused by the lack of a vital muscle protein that scientists called dystrophin.
Loss of balance and lack of muscular coordination can follow. Those struck generally do not die, but elderly people and those with other medical conditions can be affected more severely.
Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain causing fever, sore throat, headaches, confusion and muscular weakness.
The performance is brisk and muscular, but not so much that Schubert's fleeting changes of color and mood are sacrificed.
On the same label are three discs of Mozart symphonies by the Vienna Philharmonic under James Levine, whose muscular way with this repertoire is equally convincing, though I don't always agree with the way he puts that muscle to use.
The Soviet Gang of Four is a considerably more muscular bunch than the foursome Deng Xiaoping squelched in China some years back.
In fact, she wants him the way he wants him: 5-11, 171, muscular.
In the case of myoblast transfer therapy for muscular dystrophy, five teams of scientists, including Dr. Law's, either have begun or are about to begin testing of the procedure.
"I started thinking I didn't want to be the next one," says Joe, now a muscular 17-year-old.
Genetic probes were a new idea in 1981 when Kay E. Davies and her colleagues at the University of London used them to examine the X chromosomes of muscular dystrophy children and their families.
Lean and muscular, Mr. Walsh is an intense man.
In fact, they want men the way men want themselves: 5-11, 171, muscular.
Christoph von Dohnanyi's conducting of the Vienna Philharmonic is muscular yet flexible, highly responsive to singers' demands, if sometimes distinctly un-Mediterranean in temper.
The Rebels have inside strength in the 6-foot-9 Gilliam, a muscular power forward averaging 24 points a game, and good outside shooting from skinny guard Freddie "Skeleton" Banks, a profilic scorer from three-point range.
The only prescription medicines he has taken during that period have been antihistamines for hay fever and naproxin, a pain killer, for muscular sprains and aches.
Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive degeneration of the nerve cells that govern muscular movement.
The unprecedented advance against muscular dystrophy now under way is giving impetus to the organized effort to locate and identify all 50,000 to 100,000 human genes, an effort known as the human genome project.
Roosevelt, he writes, went in for 'muscular diplomacy'.
As for Reagan, despite his muscular campaign rhetoric, only a surreptitious transfer of U.S. weapons to Iran _ which caused an uproar when it became public _ seemed to liberate three Americans. And others were seized subsequently.
Patrick Hogan, an abstract artist who had to use his mouth to hold a paintbrush because of a rare and progressive form of muscular atrophy, died of respiratory failure Thursday.
Sherlock Holmes will be a less muscular version of Bo and Luke Duke from "The Dukes of Hazzard," and the gardens behind rural homes will become suburban backyards with plastic pink flamingos.
The inbred laboratory mice have a genetic defect that prevents their muscles from making dystrophin, making the rodents ideal research animals for muscular dystrophy.
This three-disk collection offers vibrant, muscular renditions of the brooding Russian master's 4th, 5th and 6th Symphonies.