Usually means: Sensory receptors within skeletal muscles.
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  1. muscle spindle: Merriam-Webster
  2. muscle spindle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. muscle-spindle: Wordnik
  4. muscle spindle: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. muscle spindle: Dictionary.com
  6. Muscle spindle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. muscle spindle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. muscle spindle: Wiktionary

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  1. muscle spindle: Encyclopedia

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  1. muscle spindle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. muscle spindle: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (muscle spindle)

noun:  A stretch receptor within the body of a skeletal muscle that detects changes in the length of the muscle.

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