Usually means: Contractile tissue for voluntary movement.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word skeletal muscle:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. skeletal muscle: Merriam-Webster
  2. skeletal muscle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skeletal muscle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. skeletal muscle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. skeletal muscle: Vocabulary.com
  6. skeletal muscle: Wiktionary
  7. skeletal muscle: Dictionary.com
  8. Skeletal Muscle, Skeletal muscle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. skeletal muscle: Rhymezone
  10. skeletal muscle: FreeDictionary.org
  11. skeletal muscle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. skeletal muscle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Muscle, skeletal, skeletal muscle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. skeletal muscle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Skeletal muscle: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Muscle, skeletal, skeletal muscle: Medical dictionary
  7. Skeletal muscle: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See skeletal_muscles 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.

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