Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

muscle-prism

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English

Syllables: mus-cle--prism
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Ellipsis of regular muscle-prism.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

muscle-prisms (plural)

Questions

What does muscle-prism mean?: Ellipsis of regular muscle-prism.

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