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Striated muscle tissue
Muscle tissue with repeating functional units called sarcomeres / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Striated muscle tissue is a muscle tissue that features repeating functional units called sarcomeres. 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 two types of striated muscle:
- Cardiac muscle (heart muscle)
- Skeletal muscle (muscle attached to the skeleton)
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System | Musculoskeletal system |
Identifiers | |
Latin | textus muscularis striatus |
MeSH | D054792 |
TH | H2.00.05.2.00001 |
FMA | 67905 |
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