muscle fiber

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noun

one of the structural cells of a muscle.

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Origin of muscle fiber

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby muscle fiber

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How to use muscle fiber in a sentence

Anytime you’re backed into a corner, you tend to have fast twitch, muscle fiber thinking — you’re able to find new pathways really fast.
‘Proactive is the path’: Group Nine’s Geoff Schiller on his selling strategy|Kayleigh Barber|February 9, 2021|Digiday
You’re training your nervous system to fire more muscle fibers at once, leading to stronger and faster muscle contractions.
How to Train Power for the Lower Body|Hayden Carpenter|January 27, 2021|Outside Online
When millions of new cells have grown, they are encouraged to differentiate into muscle cells and eventually strands of muscle fiber.
Your first lab-grown burger is coming soon—and it’ll be “blended”|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
It’s far from clear that muscle fibers tell you anything useful about whether a 10K runner who is already putting in 100 miles a week should increase their mileage.
How Your Muscle Fibers Might Predict Overtraining|Alex Hutchinson|October 17, 2020|Outside Online

In the end, the simple version of the muscle fiber story is still in the wrong-but-useful category.
How Your Muscle Fibers Might Predict Overtraining|Alex Hutchinson|October 17, 2020|Outside Online
His muscle fiber had drawn strength from the ax and the log-pole, but as yet it had not become heavy with decades of hard labor.
Destiny|Charles Neville Buck
It is a general rule of the nervous system that no nerve cell extends without a break from any sense organ to any muscle fiber.
Physiology|Ernest G. Martin