muscle fiber

English

Alternative forms

• muscle fibre

Noun

muscle fiber (countable and uncountable, plural muscle fibers)

1. (anatomy) A single cell of a muscle; each muscle fiber contains many myofibrils, the contractile unit of muscles.

   Synonym: myocyte

Translations

single cell of a muscle

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 肌肉纖維／肌肉纤维 (jīròu xiānwéi)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: spiercel (nl) f, myocyt m
• Finnish: lihassolu (fi), lihassyy (fi)
• Irish: snáithín matáin m
• Maori: weu uaua
• Tagalog: binggas

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