myotatic irritability
n.
The ability of a muscle to contract in response to the stimulus produced by a sudden stretching.
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Nearby words
- myosotis,
- myospasm,
- myotactic,
- myotasis,
- myotatic contraction,
- myotatic reflex,
- myotenositis,
- myotenotomy,
- myotic,
- myotome
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