"muscle fiber" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: muscle fibers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: muscle fiber Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Muscles Synonyms: myocyte, muscle fibre Translations (single cell of a muscle): 肌肉纖維 (Chinese Mandarin), 肌肉纤维 (jīròu xiānwéi) (Chinese Mandarin), spiercel [feminine] (Dutch), myocyt [masculine] (Dutch), lihassolu (Finnish), lihassyy (Finnish), snáithín matáin [masculine] (Irish), weu uaua (Maori), binggas (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-muscle_fiber-en-noun-iBvZONFA Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

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