striped muscle

British  

noun

1. Also called: skeletal muscle.  a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached Compare smooth muscle

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Example Sentences

It contains striped muscle fibres, and is supposed to originate from a residue of muscular tissue which has become sequestrated during development.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

Surgical Anatomy.—The tongue is composed of interlaced, striped muscle fibres, partly consisting of the terminations of the extrinsic muscles, and partly of the intrinsic muscles.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Creatine, krē′a-tin, n. a constant and characteristic constituent of the striped muscle of vertebrates—also Kre′atine.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

These cells are less ready in responding to a stimulus, contract more slowly, and tend to remain longer contracted when they pass into this condition than striped muscle cells.

From Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Mills, Wesley

If the ends of a divided striped muscle are at once brought into apposition by stitches, primary union takes place with a minimum of intervening fibrous tissue.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis