subneural apparatus
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subneural clefts — evenly spaced lamella like clefts within the primary synaptic cleft, formed by infoldings of the sarcolemma into the underlying sarcolemma of muscle; called also subneural apparatus and secondary synaptic c s … Medical dictionary
apparatus — 1. A collection of instruments adapted for a special purpose. 2. An instrument made up of several parts. 3. [TA] A group or system of glands, ducts, blood vessel s, muscles, or other anatomic structures involved in the performance of some… … Medical dictionary
motor end plate — n the terminal arborization of a motor axon on a muscle fiber * * * the discoid expansion of a terminal branch of the axon of a motor nerve fiber, which apposes the subneural apparatus of a skeletal muscle fiber, forming the neuromuscular… … Medical dictionary
muscle — muscleless, adj. muscly, adj. /mus euhl/, n., v., muscled, muscling, adj. n. 1. a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body. 2. an organ, composed of muscle tissue, that contracts to produce a… … Universalium
