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"MUSCLE FIBERS" is a plural of: muscle fiber. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Large single cells, either cylindrical or prismatic in shape, that form the basic unit of muscle tissue. They consist of a soft contractile substance enclosed in a tubular sheath. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MUSCLE FIBERS |
| English words defined with "MUSCLE FIBERS": actomyosin ♦ contractility ♦ Disdiaclast ♦ Fascicled, fasciculation, fibrillation ♦ Muscle plasma, Myolin ♦ Nonstriated ♦ rigor mortis ♦ syncytium ♦ Unstriped. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MUSCLE FIBERS": Lasalocid ♦ Motor Neurons, Gamma, Muscle Spindles, Muscular Atrophy, Muscular Disorders, Atrophic ♦ Purkinje Fibers ♦ Tropomyosin. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Histopathology of gastrocnemius muscle from patient who died of pseudohypertrophic muscular dystrophy, Duchenne type. Cross section of muscle shows extensive replacement of muscle fibers by adipose cells. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the growth and arrangement of muscle fibers are abnormal, leading to thickened heart walls. (references) | |
Muscle fibers in myasthenia gravis, as well as other neuromuscular disorders, do not respond as well to repeated electrical stimulation compared to muscles from normal individuals. (references) | ||
A different test called single fiber electromyography (EMG), in which single muscle fibers are stimulated by electrical impulses, can also detect impaired nerve-to-muscle transmission. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-e-e-f-i-l-m-r-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: briefless, crimeless, fusileers, merciless, sublimers. | |
-4 letters: becrimes, becurses, belfries, beslimes, besmiles, bluesier, brimless, climbers, clumbers, clumsier, crumbles, cureless, fireless, fluerics, frisbees, fumblers, fumeless, fusileer, leisures, limbuses, lucifers, merciful, misrules, recluses, scumbles, slumbers, suberise, subfiles, sublimer, sublimes, submerse. | |
-5 letters: becrime, becurse, beliefs, beliers, bemires, bemuses, berimes, beslime, besmile, biremes, blesser, brimful, bruises, ceilers, cerises. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 55 53 43 4C 45 46 49 42 45 52 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01010101 01010011 01000011 01001100 01000101 00100000 01000110 01001001 01000010 01000101 01010010 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M U S C L E   F I B E R S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0055 0053 0043 004C 0045 0046 0049 0042 0045 0052 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4755533746392404336395253 |
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