Myology is the study of the muscular system, including the study of the structure, function and
diseases
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not immediately due to any external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that ar ...
of
muscle
Skeletal muscles (commonly referred to as muscles) are organs of the vertebrate muscular system and typically are attached by tendons to bones of a skeleton. The muscle cells of skeletal muscles are much longer than in the other types of muscl ...
.
The muscular system consists of
skeletal muscle
Skeletal muscles (commonly referred to as muscles) are organs of the vertebrate muscular system and typically are attached by tendons to bones of a skeleton. The muscle cells of skeletal muscles are much longer than in the other types of muscl ...
, which contracts to move or position parts of the body (e.g., the bones that articulate at joints),
smooth
Smooth may refer to:
Mathematics
* Smooth function, a function that is infinitely differentiable; used in calculus and topology
* Smooth manifold, a differentiable manifold for which all the transition maps are smooth functions
* Smooth algebrai ...
and
cardiac muscle
Cardiac muscle (also called heart muscle, myocardium, cardiomyocytes and cardiac myocytes) is one of three types of vertebrate muscle tissues, with the other two being skeletal muscle and smooth muscle. It is an involuntary, striated muscle th ...
that propels, expels or controls the flow of fluids and contained substance.
See also
*
Myotomy
Myotomy is a surgical procedure in which muscle is cut. A common example of a myotomy is the Heller myotomy.
See also
* List of surgeries by type
Many surgical procedure names can be broken into parts to indicate the meaning. For example, in ...
*
Oral myology
References
External links
British Myology Society
Physiology
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