A muscle cell in which the fibers are organised into sarcomeres but in which adjacent myofibrils are offset from each other, producing an oblique banding pattern. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8720463 GOC : DOS ]
Term information
- Examples include the somatic muscles of nemotodes and cephalopods.
- A muscle cell in which the fibers are organised into sarcomeres but in which adjacent myofibrils are offset from each other, producing an oblique banding pattern.
Term relations
- muscle cell and has part some sarcomere and has characteristic some obliquely striated