muscle fiber
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of muscle fiber
First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences
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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
Because of a mutation in the gene for dystrophin, DMD patients lack functioning copies of the huge protein that serves as a shock absorber inside muscle fiber cells.
From Science Magazine • May 23, 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
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.
From Destiny by Buck, Charles Neville
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