Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun muscle_fibre

1 sense of muscle fibre

Sense 1
muscle cell, muscle fiber, muscle fibre -- (an elongated contractile cell that forms the muscles of the body)
       => fiber, fibre -- (any of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber))
       => somatic cell, vegetative cell -- (any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes; "somatic cells are produced from preexisting cells";)