Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the ray-like epipleural bones in fishes that are attached to the ribs or just above them.
  • Situated between muscles or muscular fibers.
  • A fascia of white fibrous connective tissue separating two muscles or muscular fibers.

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  • adjective (Anat.) Between muscles.

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  • adjective anatomy Between muscles.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ muscular

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Examples

  • The skeletal system of trout and salmon consists of the skull, backbone, a set of bones called the appendicular skeleton, and the ribs and intermuscular bones.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The skeletal system of trout and salmon consists of the skull, backbone, a set of bones called the appendicular skeleton, and the ribs and intermuscular bones.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The skeletal system of trout and salmon consists of the skull, backbone, a set of bones called the appendicular skeleton, and the ribs and intermuscular bones.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • The skeletal system of trout and salmon consists of the skull, backbone, a set of bones called the appendicular skeleton, and the ribs and intermuscular bones.

    Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

  • In the upper part of the leg the tibialis anticus, A, Plate 67, Figure 2, and extensor-communis muscle, B, are adherent to the fascia which covers them, and to the intermuscular septum which divides them.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The extensor communis digitorum lies close to the outer side of the anterior tibial muscle, and arises from the upper three-fourths of the fibula, from the interosseous ligament and intermuscular septum.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • It passes medialward upon the Brachialis, and piercing the medial intermuscular septum, winds around the back of the humerus between the Triceps brachii and the bone, forming, by its junction with the profunda brachii, an arch above the olecranon fossa.

    VI. The Arteries. 4b. 2. The Brachial Artery 1918

  • Here it pierces the medial intermuscular septum, runs obliquely across the medial head of the Triceps brachii, and descends to the groove between the medial epicondyle and the olecranon, accompanied by the superior ulnar collateral artery.

    IX. Neurology. 6b. The Anterior Divisions 1918

  • It pierces the lateral intermuscular septum, and passes between the Brachialis and Brachioradialis to the front of the lateral epicondyle, where it divides into a superficial and a deep branch.

    IX. Neurology. 6b. The Anterior Divisions 1918

  • It pierces the medial intermuscular septum, and descends on the surface of the medial head of the Triceps brachii to the space between the medial epicondyle and olecranon, accompanied by the ulnar nerve, and ends under the Flexor carpi ulnaris by anastomosing with the posterior ulnar recurrent, and inferior ulnar collateral.

    VI. The Arteries. 4b. 2. The Brachial Artery 1918

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