muscle fibre

British

noun

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

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Age-related loss of a specific fast-twitch muscle fibre subtype, key for explosive muscle performance, was also observed4.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2024

A study suggests the difference is mostly due to a higher proportion in chimps of a muscle fibre type involved in powerful, rapid movements.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2017

However, they did find key differences in the length of the fibres - chimp muscle fibres tend to be longer than corresponding ones in humans - and in the distribution of different muscle fibre types.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2017

Is the news that Fernando Torres has been diagnosed with "a Grade 1 muscle fibre rupture in the left thigh" good news for Liverpool fans or bad news for Liverpool fans?

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2010

The power which enables the muscle fibre to take the material it needs, discarding the rest, is, again, one of the vital processes which we defer for a moment.

From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)

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