Muscle is a soft tissue, one of the four basic types of animal tissue. Muscle tissue gives skeletal muscles the ability to contract. Muscle is formed...

Skeletal muscle (commonly referred to as muscle) is one of the three types of vertebrate muscle tissue, the other being cardiac muscle and smooth muscle. They...

muscle or muscle tissue. In this sense it can refer to: Skeletal muscle, the voluntary muscle allowing conscious movement in vertebrates Smooth muscle, the...

Muscle contraction is the activation of tension-generating sites within muscle cells. In physiology, muscle contraction does not necessarily mean muscle...

A muscle cell, also known as a myocyte, is a mature contractile cell in the muscle of an animal. In humans and other vertebrates there are three types:...

A muscle car is an American-made two-door sports coupe with a powerful engine, generally designed for high-performance driving. In 1949, General Motors...

Muscle hypertrophy or muscle building involves a hypertrophy or increase in size of skeletal muscle through a growth in size of its component cells. Two...

muscles in the human body may be referred to as an oblique muscle: Abdominal wall Abdominal external oblique muscle Abdominal internal oblique muscle...

Cardiac muscle (also called heart muscle or myocardium) is one of three types of vertebrate muscle tissues, the others being skeletal muscle and smooth...

The deltoid muscle is the muscle forming the rounded contour of the human shoulder. It is also known as the 'common shoulder muscle', particularly in...