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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given by Brücke to hypothetical small doubly refracting elements, of which he supposed the anisotropous disks of striated muscle to be composed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Physiol.) One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks of muscle fibers.
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- noun physiology One of the
dark particles forming the doublyrefracting disks ofmuscle fibres .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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