Medical Definition of Skeletal muscle tissue
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A rather non-specific term usually applied to the striated muscle of vertebrates that is under voluntary control.
The muscle fibres are syncytial and contain myofibrils, tandem arrays of sarcomeres.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeletal Muscle Tissue
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