muscle cell

1. 1.

   an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body

   Synonymsmuscle fibermuscle fibre

   Broaderfibersomatic cell

   Narrowerstriated muscle cellsmooth muscle cell

   Part ofmuscle

Questions about muscle cell

What does muscle cell mean?

muscle cell means "an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body".

What is another word for muscle cell?

Close synonyms include muscle fiber, muscle fibre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is muscle cell a common word?

muscle cell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.