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Definition of Myofibrils
1. myofibril [n] - See also: myofibril
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myofibrils
Literary usage of Myofibrils
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Histology: Arranged Upon an Embryological Basis by Frederic Thomas Lewis, Philipp Stöhr (1913)
"Accordingly he agrees with Apathy in regarding the myofibrils as comparable ...
It is then seen that the myofibrils, which run lengthwise, are composed of ..."
2. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"The Q_ bands of the myofibrils disappeared, while the Z lines increased in
thickness and ... Affected myofibrils became shrunken and deeply staining, ..."
3. A Laboratory manual and text-book of embryology by Charles William Prentiss (1922)
"... fibrils and fine myofibrils are present. connective-tissue fibers which envelop
the muscle fibers and bind them together. Smooth muscle also increases ..."
4. The American Year Book by Simon Newton Dexter North, Francis Graham Wickware, Albert Bushnell Hart (1917)
"The banding in uncontracted myofibrils is described and figured. Contraction appears
to be due to a shortening and thickening of the myofibrils with ..."
5. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1921)
"it is clearly evident that contraction is not due in any way to the myofibrils,
as supposed by some, since no myofibrils ..."
6. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1890)
"THE CYTOLOGY OF DEVELOPING MUSCLE ISABELLE G. WEED Development of myofibrils in
myotome muscle of chick embryos may be divided into two phases. ..."
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