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Muscle

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a body tissue that contracts to produce movement and strength
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Stage 1 of 2
musculus
Latin · ancient
"a little mouse"
literally little mouse, since a flexing muscle was thought to resemble a mouse moving under the skin
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Stage 2 of 2
muscle
English · 1300s
"a body tissue that contracts to produce movement"
settled as the English word for the body's contractile tissue
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