Meanings
adjectivemyogenic (comparative more myogenic, superlative most myogenic)
comparative more myogenic · superlative most myogenic
- medicineOriginating in muscle tissue; specifically, pertaining to contractile activity that is produced by the muscles independent of any neural mechanism.First known use 19th c.
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
Origin
- Frenchmyogénique
- Englishmyogenic
From myo- + -genic, after French myogénique.
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