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Muscle Cell

Definition: Muscle Cell

Muscle Cell

Noun

1. An elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Muscle Cell

Synonyms: muscle fiber (n), muscle fibre (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Muscle Cell

English words defined with "muscle cell": myonecrosis. (references)
Specialty definitions using "muscle cell": Motor Endplate, MyoD Protein, Myogeninpericyte, Pericytes. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Muscle Cell

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Books

  • Prostaglandins and Control of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation (reference)

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Image Slideshow: Muscle Cell

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Non-Fiction Usage: Muscle Cell

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Health

Others are looking at the mechanism of fatigue, and trying to tease out information from the brain, muscles, and neuromuscular junction (the site where a nerve cell meets the muscle cell it helps activate). (references)

Some, but not all, of the molecules that control development of the NMJ are present in the developing CNS. Each muscle cell receives synapses from only one axon, and all of these use the same neurotransmitter (acetylcholine). (references)

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare lung disease that was first described in the medical literature by von Stossel in 1937. The disease is characterized by an unusual type of muscle cell that invades the tissue of the lungs, including the airways, and blood and lymph vessels. (references)

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Expressions: Muscle Cell

Expressions using "muscle cell": smooth muscle cell striated muscle cell. Additional references.

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Anagrams: Muscle Cell

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-l-l-l-m-s-u"

-2 letters: cellules.

-3 letters: cellule.

-4 letters: muscle.

-5 letters: cecum, cells, clues, culls, culms, cusec, emeus, luces, lulls, mells, mules, mulls, scull, selle, smell.

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Alternative Orthography: Muscle Cell


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 75 73 63 6C 65      43 65 6C 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01110101 01110011 01100011 01101100 01100101 00100000 01000011 01100101 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#117 &#115 &#99 &#108 &#101 &#32 &#67 &#101 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0075 0073 0063 006C 0065      0043 0065 006C 006C

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

478785697871237717878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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