muscular tissue

Questions about muscular tissue

What does muscular tissue mean?

muscular tissue means "animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells".

What is another word for muscular tissue?

Close synonyms include muscle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is muscular tissue a common word?

muscular tissue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.