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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[NL., from Gr.

σάρξ

σάρκος

, flesh + [GREEK] rind, skin.]

(Anat.)

The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.

sarcolemma ‎(plural sarcolemmas or sarcolemmata)

a thin cell membrane that surrounds a striated muscle fibre