skeletal muscle

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A usually voluntary muscle made up of elongated, multinucleated, transversely striated muscle fibers, having principally bony attachments.

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• noun 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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• noun a muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripes