MUSCLE CORPUSCLE'S
\mˈʌsə͡l kˈɔːpʌskə͡lz], \mˈʌsəl kˈɔːpʌskəlz], \m_ˈʌ_s_əl k_ˈɔː_p_ʌ_s_k_əl_z]\
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Syn.: muscle nuclei. Small nucleiform or celllike masses belonging to striated muscular fibers. In mammals they are situated on the surface of the muscular fibers, next to the sarcolemma, but in the lower vertebrates and in the invertebrates part of them are upon and part within the substance of the muscular fiber. They appear like nuclei and are sometimes surrounded by more or less granular protoplasm, which shades off gradually into the substance of the fiber. It is supposed to represent the cell body, which originally, with others, gave rise to the muscular substance, and presides over the nutrition and growth of the fibers.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).