myography

plural myographies

1. countableuncountableThe scientific study of muscles, typically via myographs.

   7.2 Myography. / To measure force production during contraction, a technique called myography is often utilized. Like the previously mentioned sensors (inertial sensors, etc.), myography can be used to track motion patterns and characterize gestures. […]

   2018 August 8, Raymond Tong, Wearable Technology in Medicine and Health Care, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 139

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   As there is no adequate description of recent developments in the technique of myography, it may be useful if an account is given of the torsion- wire myograph and of other details of procedure […] Successful measurement of such relatively brief intervals as the latent period and the period of rigidity of skeletal muscle requires a mechanical recording instrument of enhanced accuracy. Several myographs have been utilized[…]

   1926, John Farquhar Fulton, Muscular Contraction and the Reflex Control of Movement, page 541

   Wire myography is an in vitro technique that allows us to examine functional responses and vascular reactivity of isolated small resistance arteries. […] The four-channel myograph is most commonly used, because it allows the simultaneous study of four vessels in individual organ baths. Other models (such as two-channel myographs), […] are also available. Myography starts with the careful dissection of small arteries, […]

   2008 February 2, Angela Spiers, Neal Padmanabhan, “A Guide to Wire Myography”, in Jérôme P. Fennell, editor, Hypertension: Methods and Protocols, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, pages 91-92; republished as Andrew H. Baker, editor, (Please provide a date or year)