striated muscle

Questions about striated muscle

What is another word for striated muscle?

It depends which striated muscle you mean. In the sense “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”, the synonyms are skeletal muscle. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of striated muscle?

WordNet records no antonym for striated muscle. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for striated muscle come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of striated muscle

• Full entry for striated muscleAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for striated muscleWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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