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mus′cle fi′ber, 
  1. Cell Biologyone of the structural cells of a muscle.
  • 1875–80

'muscle fiber' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
action potential - all-or-none law - end plate - fast-twitch - impulse - sarcolemma - sarcoplasm - sarcosome - slow-twitch - stria

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