EMG is most often used when a person has symptoms of weakness, pain, or abnormal sensation. It can help tell the difference between muscle weakness caused by the injury of a nerve attached to a muscle, and weakness due to nervous system disorders, such as muscle diseases.
Alternatively, they may instead be admired and romanticised as noble savages. In idiomatic or figurative usage, a barbarian may also be an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, warlike, insensitive person. The term originates from the Greek: Î²Î¬ÏÎ²Î±ÏÎ¿Ï (barbaros). In ancient times, the Greeks used it mostly for people of different cultures, but there are examples where one Greek city or state would use the word to attack another.
The ancient Greek word âbÃ¡rbaros,â from which it derives, meant âbabbler,â and was onomatopoeic: In the Greek ear, speakers of a foreign tongue made unintelligible sounds (âbar bar barâ). It was the ancient Romans, who by the original definition were barbarians themselves, who first transformed the use of the term.