skeletal muscle

noun

: striated muscle that is usually attached to the skeleton and is usually under voluntary control

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Could beet juice enhance the heart’s ability to deliver oxygen-carrying blood, and help keep the skeletal muscle strong, in such patients? —Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2019

LeBrasseur and his colleagues at the Mayo Clinic are looking at senescent cells in skeletal muscle. —Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023

Once in skeletal muscle, nitric oxide can do several things. —Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2019

Once energy needs are met, leftover glucose is stored in the liver and skeletal muscle in a condensed form called glycogen. —Mckale Montgomery, The Conversation, 19 May 2022

For example, drinking a glass of milk has been shown to impact skeletal muscle more so than having the same amount of protein from isolated whey powder. —Daphne Ewing-chow, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022

Capillaries hemmorrhage and the area swells while the proteases keep at their attack, taking out skeletal muscle through mechanisms poorly understood. —Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2016

One unique characteristic of Toxoplasma is that in some hosts, including humans and rodents, the parasite establishes a chronic infection as latent tissue cysts in the brain, heart and skeletal muscle. —Grrlscientist, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023

Rhabdomyolysis is a rare condition in which skeletal muscle tissue breaks down from intense physical exertion and releases proteins and electrolytes (such as potassium) into the bloodstream at a toxic level. —Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 19 Dec. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1877, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

skeletal muscle

noun

: striated muscle that is usually attached to the skeleton and is usually under voluntary control

also : a muscle composed of skeletal muscle