Anatomy and Zoology. Any of various flattened circular structures inside the body. A transverse segment of a striated muscle fibre (after certain…

a muscle cell; esp. the elongated multinucleate cell characteristic of striated muscle.

Used in the possessive and with of-adjunct to designate structures in the body which Krause investigated. (A transverse membrane appearing as) a…

In fibrils of striated muscle: each of the transverse bands which alternate with I bands, appearing dark under polarized light and composed of…