muscle fiber
one of the structural cells of a muscle.
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How to use muscle fiber in a sentence
Anytime you’re backed into a corner, you tend to have fast twitch, muscle fiber thinking — you’re able to find new pathways really fast.
‘Proactive is the path’: Group Nine’s Geoff Schiller on his selling strategy | Kayleigh Barber | February 9, 2021 | DigidayYou’re training your nervous system to fire more muscle fibers at once, leading to stronger and faster muscle contractions.
When millions of new cells have grown, they are encouraged to differentiate into muscle cells and eventually strands of muscle fiber.
Your first lab-grown burger is coming soon—and it’ll be “blended” | Katie McLean | December 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewIt’s far from clear that muscle fibers tell you anything useful about whether a 10K runner who is already putting in 100 miles a week should increase their mileage.
How Your Muscle Fibers Might Predict Overtraining | Alex Hutchinson | October 17, 2020 | Outside OnlineIn the end, the simple version of the muscle fiber story is still in the wrong-but-useful category.
How Your Muscle Fibers Might Predict Overtraining | Alex Hutchinson | October 17, 2020 | Outside Online
His muscle fiber had drawn strength from the ax and the log-pole, but as yet it had not become heavy with decades of hard labor.
Destiny | Charles Neville BuckIt is a general rule of the nervous system that no nerve cell extends without a break from any sense organ to any muscle fiber.
Physiology | Ernest G. Martin
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