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striped muscle

noun

  1. 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 calledskeletal muscle Compare smooth muscle
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The muscles of the limbs are made up of striped muscle-cells; those of the stomach, etc., of unstriped cells.

Now, can you tell me whether each spine has likewise an oblique unstriped or striped muscle, as figured by Lister?

Only the striped muscle (that of the heart excepted) contains Trichin.

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