muscle fiber

Questions about muscle fiber

What does muscle fiber mean?

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

What is another word for muscle fiber?

Close synonyms include muscle cell, 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 fiber a common word?

muscle fiber 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.