musculation (muskulashon)

[F. mus culation; as L. musculus, muscle, + -ation.] The musculation way or mode in which a part is provided with muscles; the number, kind, and disposition of the muscles of a part or organ. It is not by Touch, Taste, Hearing, Smelling, Musculation , etc., that we can explain astronomical, physical, chemical, and biological phenomena. G. H. Lewes, Probs. of Life and Mind, II. 446. =Syn. Musculation, Musculature. Musculation is more frequent in merely descriptive anatomy, with reference to the attachments or other topographical disposition of individual muscles; musculature is the more comprehensive morphological or embryological term.