muscle fibre

noun

1. any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle

Example Sentences

This form of contraction is that obtained when the muscle fibre itself is stimulated.

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Cuvier knew, for example, that each muscle fibre has its own nerve fibre.

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They are known to occur also in smooth muscle-fibre, in cartilage cells, in connective-tissue cells, and in some nerve-cells.

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Contractile or myo-epithelial cells, with the cell prolonged at the base into a contractile muscle-fibre (fig. 6, B).

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Each compartment contains a lamellated electric disc representing the shortened-up and otherwise metamorphosed muscle fibre.

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