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regular muscle-prism

noun

Etymology

From regular + muscle + prism.

  1. derived from πρίσμᾰ — “anything sawn; sawdust; (Koine, geometry) prism”
  2. learned borrowing from prisma — “(geometry) prism”
  3. compounded as regular muscle-prism — “regular + muscle + prism”

Definitions

  1. A simplified, geometric block representing a bundle of parallel muscle fibers

    A simplified, geometric block representing a bundle of parallel muscle fibers; an old teaching model used for explaining tension, cross-sections, and electrical properties of muscle.

    • ... and a muscle of regular shape, in which the fibers are parallel, is selected. The ends are cut off by clean vertical cuts, and the resulting piece of muscle is called a regular muscle prism.
    • When the muscle is at rest the contents of the muscle prism will be in equilibrium with the surrounding sarcoplasm ... pressure in the muscle prism rises and causes a bulging of its lateral wall and a shortening of the whole element.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for regular muscle-prism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA