Terminology
The unusual microstructure of muscle cells has led cell biologists to create specialized terminology. However, each term specific to muscle cells has a counterpart that is used in the terminology applied to other types of cells:
| Muscle cell | Other organismal cells |
| sarcoplasm | cytoplasm |
| sarcoplasmic reticulum | smooth endoplasmic reticulum (SER) |
| sarcosome | mitochondrion |
| sarcolemma | cell membrane or plasma membrane |
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