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muscle-prism

muscle-prism is the ellipsis of regular muscle-prism.

Meaning of regular muscle-prism

Noun

regular muscle-prism (plural regular muscle-prisms)

  1. 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.
    • Taking a regularly shaped muscle in which the fibres are parallel, we will cut out a part of this by making two even cuts at right angles to the direction of the fibres. A piece of this sort may be called a regular muscle-prism. It is, according to the shape of the muscle used, either circular or...1881, Rosenthal, Isidor, chapter XI, in General Physiology of Muscles and Nerves, page 189

Forms of muscle-prism

pluralmuscle-prisms

Phrases with muscle-prism

Questions about muscle-prism

What is muscle-prism the ellipsis of?
Muscle-prism is the ellipsis of regular muscle-prism.

Words near muscle-prism in the dictionary

  1. muscle woman
  2. muscle women
  3. muscle worship
  4. muscle-bound
  5. muscle-eye-brain disease
  6. muscle-prism
  7. muscle-queen
  8. muscle-queens
  9. muscle-up
  10. muscle-ups
  11. musclebike

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