my olðgy

[Pref. myo- (1), and Gr. logos =a treatise, a discourse.] A scientific description or knowledge of the muscles of the human body. "To instance in all the particulars were to write a whole system of myology ." -Cheyne: Phil . Principles. mỹ-o-măn-çỹ, s. [Pref. myo- (2), and manteia prophecy, divination.] A kind of divination or fortune-telling by the movements of mice. my-o-mor-pha, s. pl. [Pref. myo-, and Greek morphe =form.] Zool.: A section of simple-toothed rodents. It includes six families: Myoxide, Lophiomyidæ, Muride, Spalacide, Geomyidæ, and Dipopide. my-o-mor-phic, adj. [Mod. Latin, ., myomorph(a); -ic.] Belonging to the section Myomorpha (q. v.). my-o-mor-phus, s. [MYOMORPHA.] Palæont.: An extinct genus of South American Chinch ill ide found in Pliocene deposits in the island of An quill a, one of the Antilles. It is allied to Megalonyx, and is of "special interest, proving the connection of the larger West Indian Islands with the continent some time in the later Tertiary period." (Wallace: Geog. Dist . Anim ., i. 148.) mỹ-ô-niç-1-ty, subst . (Gr. mys (gen it. myos)=a muscle.] [NEURICITY.] Physiol.: (See extract.) "Neuricity is convertible into my on i city and into other forms of polar force, just as my on i city or the muscular force may be disposed of by conversion into heat."Owen: Anat. Vertebrates, i. 318.