muscle-prism

A form of regular muscle-prism — 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.

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nounmuscle-prism (plural muscle-prisms)

plural muscle-prisms

  1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of regular muscle-prism.

    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.

    1912, Starling, Ernest Henry, Principles of Human Physiology, page 264
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