skeletal muscle

English

Noun

skeletal muscle (countable and uncountable, plural skeletal muscles)

  1. (anatomy) The voluntary muscle of vertebrates, which is striated and anchored by tendons to bone and is used to effect skeletal movement such as locomotion.

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