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skeletal muscles

skeletal muscles is the plural of skeletal muscle.

Meaning of skeletal muscle

Noun

skeletal muscle (countable and uncountable, plural skeletal muscles)

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

Questions about skeletal muscles

What is skeletal muscles the plural of?
Skeletal muscles is the plural of skeletal muscle.

Words near skeletal muscles in the dictionary

  1. skeletal eroding band
  2. skeletal formula
  3. skeletal formulae
  4. skeletal formulas
  5. skeletal muscle
  6. skeletal muscles
  7. skeletalism
  8. skeletality
  9. skeletalization
  10. skeletalize
  11. skeletalized

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