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Definition of Sarcolemma
1. Noun. An extensible membrane enclosing the contractile substance of a muscle fiber.
Definition of Sarcolemma
1. n. The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.
Definition of Sarcolemma
1. Noun. (anatomy) A thin cell membrane that surrounds a striated muscle fibre ¹
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Definition of Sarcolemma
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Medical Definition of Sarcolemma
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarcolemma
Literary usage of Sarcolemma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bioplasm: An Introduction to the Study of Physiology & Medicine by Lionel Smith Beale (1872)
"The sarcolemma of muscle appears as a transparent tube composed of very delicate
... Upon its outer surface the sarcolemma is connected with the delicate ..."
2. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery and Their Allied Sciences by New Sydenham Society (1875)
"In normal conditions, and when the contraction is not too violent, the surface
of the sarcolemma remains perfectly smooth. In violent contraction the ..."
3. Physiological Chemistry by Karl Gotthelf Lehmann (1855)
"The sarcolemma and nuclei can seldom be clearly distinguished. ... As has already
been observed, the individual portions of sarcolemma bear a strong ..."
4. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1864)
"are undoubtedly of the same nature—not, as he has represented them, a nucleated
structure, in which the nerve ends, situated beneath the sarcolemma. ..."
5. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"Of the sarcolemma.—The striped fibre is enclosed in a tubular sheath or sarcolemma,
adapted to its surface, and adhering to it. ..."
6. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"Huber-Dewitt conclude that the end branches of the axis-cylinder are entirely
under the sarcolemma. To use their own language: "Two cross sections are shown ..."
7. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1906)
"It may here be seen that the ramifications of the axis-cylinder are under the
sarcolemma terminating in a relatively thin layer of ..."
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