muscle-prism

English

Noun

muscle-prism (plural muscle-prisms)

  1. Ellipsis of regular muscle-prism.
    • 1912, Starling, Ernest Henry, Principles of Human Physiology‎[1], page 264:
      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.
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