MUSCLE FIBRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does muscle fibre mean? 

• MUSCLE FIBRE (noun)
  The noun MUSCLE FIBRE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MUSCLE FIBRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSCLE FIBRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

muscle cell; muscle fiber; muscle fibre

Hypernyms ("muscle fibre" is a kind of...):

fiber; fibre (any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber))

somatic cell; vegetative cell (any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "muscle fibre"):

striated muscle cell; striated muscle fiber (an elongated contractile cell in striated muscle tissue)

smooth muscle cell (cells of the smooth muscles)

Holonyms ("muscle fibre" is a part of...):

muscle; musculus (one of the contractile organs of the body)

 Context examples 

A very slender, longitudinal column of motor neurons in the ventrolateral medulla oblongata; its efferent fibres leave with the vagus and glossopharyngeal nerve and innervate the striated muscle fibres of the pharynx (including the musculus levator veli palatini) and the vocal cord muscles of the larynx.

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