muscle fiber
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of muscle fiber
First recorded in 1875–80
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Obesity typically causes a reduction in muscle fiber diameter, but green tea prevented this muscle atrophy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025
The analysis, reported today in Current Biology, suggests elephants get their fine control from almost 90,000 surprisingly tiny bundles of muscle fiber.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 26, 2023
Luckily, food scientists are now finding creative new ways to re-create fish’s intricate sheets of parallel muscle fiber.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2023
An MRI revealed fascial disruption, but no muscle fiber disruption.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
Hydrogen is the same, whether it be a constituent of the ocean, of the air, or of the living muscle fiber.
From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Crampton, Henry Edward
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