{"title":"Skeletal Muscle","authors":"Mimi Jakoi, J. Carbrey","doi":"10.1017/9781108565011.057","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A Skeletal muscle fiber is a large (10-100 m diameter), multinucleated syncytium. Those fibers attached to bone, mediate voluntary movement of the skeleton, and/or maintain body position and posture. Others such as the extra-ocular muscle of the eye and the tongue are not attached to the skeleton but provide precise voluntary movements. Skeletal muscle contraction is controlled by the somatic nervous system.","PeriodicalId":196989,"journal":{"name":"Basic Physiology for Anaesthetists","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Basic Physiology for Anaesthetists","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108565011.057","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A Skeletal muscle fiber is a large (10-100 m diameter), multinucleated syncytium. Those fibers attached to bone, mediate voluntary movement of the skeleton, and/or maintain body position and posture. Others such as the extra-ocular muscle of the eye and the tongue are not attached to the skeleton but provide precise voluntary movements. Skeletal muscle contraction is controlled by the somatic nervous system.