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MYOFIBRILLA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: myofibrillae   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of many contractile filaments that make up a striated muscle fiber

Synonyms:

myofibril; myofibrilla; sarcostyle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("myofibrilla" is a kind of...):

fibril; filament; strand (a very slender natural or synthetic fiber)

Meronyms (parts of "myofibrilla"):

sarcoplasm (the cytoplasm of a striated muscle fiber)

sarcomere (one of the segments into which a myofibril is divided)

Holonyms ("myofibrilla" is a part of...):

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

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