disdiaclast

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, twice) + διακλάω (diakláō, break in two) from κλάω (kláō). For the termination compare -clast.

Noun

disdiaclast (plural disdiaclasts)

  1. (physiology) One of the dark particles forming the doubly refracting disks (Z lines) of muscle fibres.

Holonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disdiaclast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)