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Myology (noun) means the scientific study of the body's muscles.

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The scientific study of the body's muscles.

"He greets me as if I'd been waiting all my life to learn the secrets of Bovine Myology and Muscle Profiling." — Betty Harper Fussell, Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef (2008)

"Examination of the myology of the Comephoridae, an endemic fish family in Lake Baikal, has revealed their morphological peculiarities." — M. Yabe, Myological peculiarities of the comephoridae: an endeimc fish taxon in Lake Baikal (Pisces: Teleostei) (2000)

"Given this, there is an urgent need for detailed compared behavioural and anatomical studies of dasyurids, especially focused on osteology, myology and arthrology." — Christian de Muizon, Chapter 4: Comparative anatomy of the Tiupampa didelphimorphs; an approach to locomotory habits of early marsupials (2003)

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