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Sarcolemma   Listen
noun
Sarcolemma  n.  (Anat.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.






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"Sarcolemma" Quotes from Famous Books



... much higher power we discern in a fibre (Sheet 7) transverse columns of rod-like sarcous elements (s.e.), the columns separated by lines of dots, the membranes of Krause (k.m.), and nuclei (n.), flattened and separated into portions, and lying, in some cases, close to the sarcolemma (sc.) the connective tissue enclosing the fibre, in others scattered throughout the substance of the fibre. The figure shows the fibre ruptured, in order to display the sarcolemma; e.p. is the end plate of a nerve (n.v.), and ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells



Words linked to "Sarcolemma" :   sarcolemmal, sarcolemmic



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