disdiaclast
Meanings
noun
- One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks (Z lines) of muscle fibres.
Word forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “twice”) + διακλάω (diakláō, “break in two”) from κλάω (kláō). For the termination compare -clast.
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