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MUSCLE CELL

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body

Synonyms:

muscle cell; muscle fiber; muscle fibre

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("muscle cell" is a kind of...):

fiber; fibre (any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber))

somatic cell; vegetative cell (any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "muscle cell"):

striated muscle cell; striated muscle fiber (an elongated contractile cell in striated muscle tissue)

smooth muscle cell (cells of the smooth muscles)

Holonyms ("muscle cell" is a part of...):

muscle; musculus (one of the contractile organs of the body)

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 Context examples: 

Ubiquitous supportive tissue adjacent to epithelium and around smooth and striated muscle cells.

(Basement Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

This gene is involved in the contractile regulation of vasculature and smooth muscle cells.

(BDKRB2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A morphologic variant of leiomyoma characterized by the presence of pleomorphic muscle cells with bizarre hyperchromatic nuclei and eosinophilic cytoplasm.

(Bizarre Leiomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The middle one third of the esophagus in which the muscle layer is composed of muscle cells of the striated and smooth types.

(Middle Third of the Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes MKL/myocardin-like protein 1, plays a role in the positive regulation of both smooth muscle cell differentiation and transcription.

(MKL1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in muscle cell differentiation.

(Neogenin, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes protein NDRG4, plays a role in both vascular smooth muscle cell growth and neuronal survival.

(NDRG4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemical that is made by nerve cells and used to communicate with other cells, including other nerve cells and muscle cells.

(Neurotransmitter, NCI Dictionary)

Nimodipine inhibits the transmembrane influx of calcium ions in response to depolarization in smooth muscle cells, thereby inhibiting vascular smooth muscle contraction and inducing vasodilatation.

(Nimodipine, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes neuromedin-U protein, plays a role in modulation of smooth muscle cell contraction in the gastrointestinal tract.

(NMU wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)