skeletal muscle

Questions about skeletal muscle

What does skeletal muscle mean?

skeletal muscle means "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".

What is another word for skeletal muscle?

Close synonyms include striated 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 skeletal muscle a common word?

skeletal muscle 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.