myoelectricity love

Definitions

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  • noun The electrical activity of skeletal muscles.

Etymologies

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myo- +‎ electricity

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Examples

  • "It keys on myoelectricity in the chest," he explains.

    Starfish 1999

  • Two years later in his search for more effective mechanical prosthesis, he learned of a Russian invention which used myoelectricity to control a motorized plastic hand.

    A Medical Mission to China 1973

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