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Example sentences for "muscular action"

  • Because the nervous excitement not discharged in muscular action, discharges itself in other nervous excitements--arouses more numerous and more remote associations of melancholy ideas, and so increases the mass of feelings.

  • If seeing had required no muscular action, we should have wanted one of our present stimuli to the acquisition of knowledge.

  • It would be foreign to the subject of the present memoir, to consider the beauty of expression of the human countenance; although this species of beauty is in a great degree referrible to muscular action.

  • The rapidity of sensation is also intimately connected with that of memory and of muscular action.

  • No man could, if he would, respond to all the impulses to muscular action aroused in him by sense-impressions.

  • Sidenote: Quickened Mentality] They are the working out through the motor paths of mental impulses to muscular action.

  • And these mental pictures coming into consciousness have brought with them their associated emotions and their associated impulses to muscular action, impulses appropriate to the picture and automatically tending to work its realization.

  • Long bones also may be broken by muscular action.

  • Before concluding that a given fracture is the result of muscular action, it is necessary to exclude the presence of any of the diseased conditions that lead to pathological fracture.

  • In fractures by muscular action the bone is broken by "traction" or "tearing.

  • The shoulder, mandible, and patella are, however, not infrequently displaced by muscular action alone.

  • If so, they are prevented by the anesthesia from expressing that influence in conscious perception or in muscular action.

  • When these stimuli reach the brain, there is a specific response, principally in the form of muscular action.

  • That is to say, direct injury of the brain can cause no purposeful nerve-muscular action, while direct injury of the finger does cause purposeful nerve-muscular action.

  • We may thus say, with Wilks, that music appears to have had its origin in muscular action.

  • The Physiological Influence of Music on Muscular Action, Circulation, Respiration, etc.

  • The first is untenable; for, in the case where some one chooses a leg of the table upon which the operator who knows the number can exercise no muscular action, the leg thus designated none the less rises at his command.

  • There you have real and important inequalities, and they dare to talk to us of muscular action and of fraud.

  • The will, in a certain condition of the human organism, can act, from a distance, upon inert bodies, and by an agency different from that of muscular action.

  • It is also probable, that the pain of fear itself may contribute to exhaust the sensorial power, even when it produces no muscular action.

  • Now if such an insect produces by muscular action a regular flapping of the wings, flight must result.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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