muscle fibre

1. 1.

   an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body

   Synonymsmuscle cellmuscle fiber

   Broaderfibersomatic cell

   Narrowerstriated muscle cellsmooth muscle cell

   Part ofmuscle

Questions about muscle fibre

What does muscle fibre mean?

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

What is another word for muscle fibre?

Close synonyms include muscle cell, muscle fiber. 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 fibre a common word?

muscle fibre 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.