a type of contractile tissue that is marked by transverse striations; it is concerned with moving skeletal parts to which it is usually attached
Also called: skeletal muscle. Compare smooth muscle
Examples of 'skeletal muscle' in a sentence
skeletal muscle
Her lab uses molecular genetic approaches to study cardiac and skeletal muscle diseases.
The Scientist (2001)
The researchers added that skeletal muscle was the target for many people trying to use gene doping and, in such cases, detection should be possible.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Food labelling regulations say that only skeletal muscle with 'naturally included' tissue can be classed as meat.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Vector injection into skeletal muscle is also a simple procedure that could be easily done outside of a standard clinical setting.
The Scientist (2001)
This was a super-muscular creature created, again, by an intervention of skeletal muscle gene expression.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The researchers used mice genetically modified to have skeletal muscle with many characteristics of well-trained muscles, even without exercising.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The significance of the breakthrough is that skeletal muscle, the kind found in arms and legs, does not normally regenerate after an injury or accident.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They did this by rigging the genetics of the mice to over-express the enzyme on skeletal muscle.