myogenic
adjUK /mʌɪəˈdʒɛnɪk/
Etymology From myo- + -genic, after French myogénique.
1
Embryology, Medicine, Sciences Forming muscle fibres; pertaining to myogenesis.
2
Medicine, Physiology, Sciences Originating in muscle tissue; specifically, pertaining to contractile activity that is produced by the muscles independent of any neural mechanism.
- Gaskell, using frogs' hearts, proved that the heartbeat was, as Haller had suggested, of myogenic origin.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 558:
- Derived terms
- angiomyogenic, electromyogenic, micromyogenic, myogenically, nonmyogenic, photomyogenic, premyogenic, promyogenic