musculature

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the muscles of a body or body part considered together, especially their arrangement and development

   The scan revealed how the animal's powerful shoulder musculature supported its forelimbs.

Borrowed in the nineteenth century from French musculature, built on Latin musculus, 'muscle,' literally 'little mouse.' The term names the muscular system or its structural arrangement.

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