Crossword-Solution: GASTROCNEMIUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gastrocnemius | n. | The muscle which makes the greater part of the calf of the leg. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “GASTROCNEMIUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BODY muscle forming curved calf of posterior leg | 1 answer |
| BODY muscle of the leg and foot | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE of the leg and foot | 1 answer |
| TWO-bellied muscle of the leg and foot | 1 answer |
| BODY muscle of the foot | 2 answers |
| MUSCLE of the foot | 2 answers |
| calf muscle | 11 answers |
| MUSCLE of the body | 18 answers |
| BODY muscle(s) | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EAZCME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with GASTROCNEMIUS (5)
And whether he would have ever escaped out of the town, it is hard to say, if the dog had not taken it into his head that they were going to pull his master in pieces, and tackled them so sharply about the gastrocnemius muscle, that he gave them some business of their own to think of at last; and while they were rubbing their bitten calves, Tom and the dog got safe away.
The soleus, so named from resembling a sole-fish, is a muscle of broad, flattened shape, lying beneath the gastrocnemius.
Later Exner[5] studied the time occupied by various processes in the nervous system of the frog by stimulating the exposed brain in different regions and noting the time which intervened before a contraction of the gastrocnemius in each case.
This was done by cutting the spinal cord just back of the medulla, placing the animal on an experimenting board close to the reaction key with the thread from the key fastened to the left leg as in case of the previous work and stimulating the gastrocnemius with an induced current by the application of wire electrodes.
Near the stifle it passes between the two heads of the gastrocnemius muscle and continues as the tibial.