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striated muscle
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Striated muscle tissue
Striated muscle tissue is muscle tissue that features repeating functional units called sarcomeres, in contrast with smooth muscle tissue which does not. The presence of sarcomeres manifests as a series of bands visible along the muscle fibers, which is responsible for the striated appearance observed in microscopic images of this tissue. There are 3 types of specific striated muscles, these being:
- Pharyngeal muscle (embryologically different from skeletal muscle)
- Cardiac muscle (heart muscle)
- Skeletal muscle
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striated muscle
Noun
1. 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
(synonym) skeletal muscle
(hypernym) muscle, musculus
(hyponym) voluntary muscle
(part-meronym) head
