Work on the subject since 1980 has shown that he was essentially right, and, on this point at aleast, myology has now caught up to where Steno was at age 29 in 1669. From Wordnik.com. [Meet Nicholas Steno] Reference
Osteology treats of the skeleton, myology of the muscles, angiology of the blood vessels, splanchology the digestive organs or department of the interior, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
The late Professor Garrod finds that "from considerations of pterylosis, visceral anatomy, myology, and osteology the screamer cannot be placed along with the Anserine birds.". From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
A book of Dr. Moreau's on madness, which he read during these months of mental relaxation, drew from him an acknowledgment wherein he foreshadowed his intention of studying anatomy and myology. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac]
This filiation between piscine and mammalian myology could hardly have been detected but for the remarkable series of gradations which the frog's class exhibits -- gradations both between species, and Fig. 65. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Frog] Reference
Dr. Moreau’s on madness, which he read during these months of mental relaxation, drew from him an acknowledgment wherein he foreshadowed his intention of studying anatomy and myology. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
Magelky certified in orafacial myology. From Wordnik.com. [Homepage | INFORUM | Fargo, ND] Reference
This important and growing department will be represented in the ideal gymnasium of the future -- First, by courses, if not by a chair, devoted to the apparatus of measurements of human proportions and symmetry, with a kinesological cabinet where young men are instructed in the elements of auscultation, the use of calipers, the sphygmograph, spirometer, plethysmograph, kinesometer to plot graphic curves, compute average errors, and tables of percentile grades and in statistical methods, etc. Second, anatomy, especially of muscles, bones, heart, and skin, will be taught, and also their physiology, with stress upon myology, the effects of exercise on the flow of blood and lymph, not excluding the development of the upright position, and all that it involves and implies. From Wordnik.com. [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference
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