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n. (muscle fiber English)
Usage examples of "muscle fibers".
And the muscle fibers in the central canal of her cervix, which ought to be softening in anticipation of labor, are still tough.
The intense stimulants blazed like lava through veins and muscle fibers, deadening pain and fear.
Even so, the edges dulled as she cut across the grain of muscle fibers, and she continually passed back knives to be resharpened.
Zach felt fresh blood trickling over his collarbone and down his chest, felt muscle fibers twist and rip, heard himself screaming, then sobbing.
The sliver of movement he'd locked on was only a terrified jackrabbit, bolting from a burrow as speedily as the bundles of fast-twitch muscle fibers in its remarkable legs could carry it.
At two o'clock in the morning her heart's normal sinus rhythm was lost, as the heart's muscle fibers flickered in spasm.
Petersen jumped up and leaned over the alien, as if she could somehow spot her former advisor among the tangle of muscle fibers and gelatinous sacks of cerebral cortex.
Even the cell structure of her muscle fibers was changing, he knew.
That kind of explosiveness, she knew, came from a preponderance of fast-twitch muscle fibers, something jumpers and event horses needed, along with the slow-twitch fibers that let them gallop miles without tiring.
Other liposomes were tailored for other cell types: muscle fibers in the vocal fold, the jaw, the lips, the tongue.
Lu came down on behalf of those who postulated the existence of multiple knots of rapid-twitch muscle fibers.
That is, their bodies seem to be composed of cellulose fibers where ours are made of muscle fibers.
He closed his eyes and concentrated, Seeing the injury, examining it with his inner sight, bringing together the torn muscle fibers, rejoining bleeding veins, goading it all into the process of Healing at a rate a thousand times faster than it would naturally, and providing the energy the body required to do so from within himself.