muscle fiber

muscle fiber

English

Alternative forms

• muscle fibre

Noun

muscle fiber (countable and uncountable, plural muscle fibers)

1. (anatomy) A single cell of a muscle; each muscle fiber contains many myofibrils, the contractile unit of muscles.

   Synonym: myocyte

Translations

single cell of a muscle

Chinese: Mandarin: 肌肉纖維／肌肉纤维 (jīròu xiānwéi) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: please add this translation if you can Finnish: lihassolu (fi), lihassyy (fi) Irish: snáithín matáin m Maori: weu uaua Tagalog: binggas

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