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.
Indeed, in the Greek of this period 'barbarian' is often used expressly to refer to Persians, who were enemies of the Greeks in this war. Greek barbaros was the etymological source for many words meaning barbarian, including English barbarian, which was first recorded in 16th-century Middle English.A word barbara-is also found in the Sanskrit of ancient India. The Greek word barbaros is related to Sanskrit barbaras (stammering).vidently, the barbarian tribes at first had individual names, but during about the middle of the first millennium B.C., they were classified schematically according to the four cardinal points of the compass.