muscle fiber
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of muscle fiber
First recorded in 1875–80
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"The biggest surprise about this was finding that a macrophage has a synaptic-like property that delivers an ion to a muscle fiber to facilitate its repair after an injury," Jankowski says.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 24, 2025
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
But most processes for making meat substitutes aren’t designed to mimic muscle fiber.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2023
Compare its flavor with muscle fiber cooked by dry heat.
From School and Home Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
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