any structural anomaly of the dark-staining region of a sarcomere that is situated between two I bands and marked by partial overlapping of thin (actin) and thick (myosin) filaments; an A band is anisotropic to polarized light and contains the entire length of a single thick filament; its center is traversed by the paler H zone, which in turn contains the M line
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