A white, shining, fibrous membrane, sometimes serving as the sheath of a muscle, sometimes forming the connection between a muscle and a tendon.

The fine transparent tubular sheath investing muscular fibre.

The connective tissue or fascia that forms sheaths around bundles of muscle fibres in a muscle and around the muscles themselves.

A transverse dark line in a fibril of striated muscle formed by Krause's membrane (see Krause, n. b); the membrane itself.

Of, pertaining to, or containing sarcoplasm; sarcoplasmic reticulum, the characteristic endoplasmic reticulum of striated muscle.