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One of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber
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myofibril
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n. (context muscle English) cylindrical organelles, found within muscle cells, that are the contractile unit of muscles.
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n. one of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber [syn: myofibrilla , sarcostyle ]
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A myofibril (also known as a muscle fibril ) is a basic rod-like unit of a muscle cell. Muscles are composed of tubular cells called myocytes , known as muscle fibers in striated muscle , and these cells in turn contain many chains of myofibrils. They are ...