muscle fibril
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muscle — muscleless, adj. muscly, adj. /mus euhl/, n., v., muscled, muscling, adj. n. 1. a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body. 2. an organ, composed of muscle tissue, that contracts to produce a… … Universalium
Fibril — The diminutive of fiber. A small fiber, a fine thread. * * * A minute fiber or component of a fiber. SYN: fibrilla. [Mod. L. fibrilla] anchoring fibrils collagen fibrils that insert in to the basal lamina of the epidermis and bind it down to the… … Medical dictionary
fibril — noun Etymology: New Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra Date: 1664 a small filament or fiber: as a. root hair b. (1) one of the fine threads into which a striated muscle fiber can be longitudinally split (2) neurofibril • fibrillar… … New Collegiate Dictionary
fibril — n. a very small fibre or a constituent thread of a fibre (for example, a myofibril of a muscle fibre). Derivatives: fibrillary adj. Derivatives: fibrillar … The new mediacal dictionary
myofibril — One of the fine longitudinal fibrils occurring in a skeletal or cardiac muscle fiber comprising many regularly overlapped ultramicroscopic thick and thin myofilaments. SYN: muscular fibril, myofibrilla. [myo + Mod. L. fibrilla, fibril] … Medical dictionary
sarcostyle — noun one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber • Syn: ↑myofibril, ↑myofibrilla • Hypernyms: ↑fibril, ↑filament, ↑strand • Part Holonyms: ↑striated muscle cell … Useful english dictionary
myoneme — 1. A muscle fibril. 2. One of the contractile fibrils of certain protozoans; thought to function in an analogous fashion to metazoan muscle fibers. [myo + G. nema, thread] * * * my·o·neme mī ə .nēm n … Medical dictionary
I band — ī n a pale band across a striated muscle fiber that consists of actin, is much less birefringent to polarized light than the A bands, is situated between two A bands, and is bisected by a narrow dark staining Z line called also isotropic band * * … Medical dictionary
Dobie globule — a minute stainable mass in the middle of the transparent disk of a muscle fibril … Medical dictionary
Floegel layer — a granular layer in each transparent lateral disk of a muscle fibril … Medical dictionary
