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muscle fiber

NOUN
  1. an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body

How To Use muscle fiber In A Sentence

  • These are all multijoint movements that recruit a maximum number of muscle fibers, leading to an increase in anabolic-hormone production.
  • A motor unit is made up of a single nerve axon and the muscle fibers it supplies.
  • Besides being segmented, the body wall of annelids is characterized by being made up of both circular and longitudinal muscle fibers surrounded by a moist, acellular cuticle that is secreted by an epidermal epithelium.
  • If a salamander is to swim straight, the action of these muscle fibers must be balanced by muscle fibers dorsal to the vertebral centra, presumably in the epaxial musculature.
  • The basic functional unit of muscle is the motor unit, which consists of a motoneuron and the muscle fibers that it innervates.
  • These muscles are arranged as a series of parallel muscle fibers from the lateral edge of the dorsal tergite to the ventral sternite.
  • At early stages of development, single muscle fibers are innervated by axon terminals from several different motor neurons.
  • The pressure squeezes and pulls at my chest so hard, so hard… so very hard, it is like you can feel the muscle fibers tearing and popping as my heart races and slows erratically. Admit-it Diary Entry
  • Just to complicate matters a bit, α-actinin-2 is also differently spliced in different tissues, producing a couple of isoforms from a single gene. α-actinin-3 is not found in the brain or heart, but only in skeletal muscle and specifically in type II fast glycolytic muscle fibers. α-actinin evolution in humans - The Panda's Thumb
  • Huge masses of them are scattered also between the adjacent striated muscle fibers.
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