Wiktionary
alt. A single cell of a muscle. Each muscle fibers contain many myofibrils, the contractile unit of muscles. n. A single cell of a muscle. Each muscle fibers contain many myofibrils, the contractile unit of muscles.
WordNet
n. an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body [syn: muscle cell, muscle fibre]
Usage examples of "muscle fiber".
The wave of depolarization travels through a muscle fiber at a rate of anywhere from 0.
But before the hand could reach the face, one of the eyes launched itself from its socketlike a grape squeezed from its skinand dangled grotesquely by red strands of muscle fiber.
A temporary pacemaker was forcing his damaged heart to beat-operating at power levels which would poison every cardiac muscle fiber with electrochemical by-products, in fifteen or twenty minutes at the most.
My whole body ached at the sight of ver, every muscle fiber, every tendon.
He could visualize every muscle fiber, every nerve cell, but for a moment that conscious awareness replaced the reflexes that should've brought action.
I could feel every single atom of my body, blood racing to carry round the sweet fresh stuff to every cell and muscle fiber.
But the transmission of a state of activity from one nerve fiber to another, as happens in the brain when sense organs are stimulated, or from a nerve fiber to a muscle fiber, as happens in voluntary movement, means transmission of excitation from one cell to another.
And Rodney Quick was not about to spend all his waking hours restringing ganglia, growing compatible muscle fiber, popping in a junkyard of synEyes, synLivers, synLungs—.
Much of its surface was striated muscle fiber, apparently unprotected.
He was still wiry and lean, but it seemed that all the good food and hard work had strengthened every single muscle fiber to an amazing degree.
He could feel the ancestral instinct burning through his veins and filling each muscle fiber as he battled Chirox with an array of weapons, from sophisticated scrambler-pulse rods to simple clubs to his bare hands.
He could feel the ancestral instinct burning through his veins and filling each muscle fiber as he battled Chirox with an array of weapons, from sophisticated scrambler-pulse rods to simple clubs, to his bare hands.
Such physical strength is a rarity, a kind of genetic aberration which could be a throwback to prehistory, to a primitive construction of muscle fiber quite dissimilar to our own.
Tentatively, he switched the motion, testing, then applied every muscle fiber and ripped upward.
Now, in the bathroom of the world-circling commercial rocket miles above the western edge of the old United States, He removed His shirt and stood before me, a magnificent specimen, all muscle and no fat He had developed a new tissue-building process, He told me, by which all food material not used for energy was converted into a new sort of muscle fiber which dissolved as easily as fat when needed to produce energy, though the body- did not have to suffer the burden of useless tissue when it was not needed.