Usually means: Voluntary muscles attached to bones.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. skeletal muscles: Merriam-Webster
  2. skeletal muscles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. skeletal muscles: Vocabulary.com
  4. skeletal muscles: Wiktionary
  5. skeletal muscles: Dictionary.com
  6. Skeletal muscles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Skeletal muscles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Skeletal muscles: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. skeletal muscles: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Skeletal muscles: Medical dictionary

(Note: See skeletal_muscle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (skeletal muscle)

noun:  (anatomy) The voluntary muscle of vertebrates, which is striated and anchored by tendons to bone and is used to effect skeletal movement such as locomotion.
▸ Also see skeletal_muscle


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