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Muscle, Skeletal

"Muscle, Skeletal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A subtype of striated muscle, attached by TENDONS to the SKELETON. Skeletal muscles are innervated and their movement can be consciously controlled. They are also called voluntary muscles.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Muscle, Skeletal" by people in this website by year, and whether "Muscle, Skeletal" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 221 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 18 publications in 2003
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