Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thin membrane enclosing a striated muscle fiber.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An elastic transparent structureless membrane which forms a tubular sheath enveloping and supporting each fiber (bundle of fibrillæ) of striped muscular tissue, excepting that of the heart. See
muscular tissue , under muscular.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy A thin
cell membrane that surrounds astriated muscle fibre
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an extensible membrane enclosing the contractile substance of a muscle fiber
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These tubes may be represented grossly by imagining the finger of a glove, to be called the sarcolemma, or muscle - fiber pouch, and this to be so small as not to be apparent to the naked eye, but filled with nuclei and the juices peculiar to each animal.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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The tip of the axon makes intimate contact with the sarcolemma (sahr'koh-Iem'ub; "skin of the flesh" G), which is the membrane enclosing the muscle fiber.
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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At each end the cell tapers to a point from which the sarcolemma appears to continue as a fine thread, and this, by attaching itself to the inclosing sheath, holds the cell in place.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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The fibrillæ, then, are bound together in a bundle to form a fiber, which is enveloped in its own sheath, the sarcolemma.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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The striations, sarcolemma, and sometimes the nuclei and nerve plates, may be distinguished in such a preparation.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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Each cell has a well-defined nucleus, but the sarcolemma is absent.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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They have no sarcolemma, stripes, or cross markings like those of the voluntary muscles.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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Each fiber is enclosed within a delicate, transparent sheath, known as the sarcolemma.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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Moreover, the muscle fibers of the heart are peculiar in that they are destitute of sarcolemma, the naked muscle fibers directly touching each other.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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Within the sarcolemma are minute fibrils and a semiliquid substance, called the _sarcoplasm_.
Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters
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