How to Use skeletal muscle in a Sentence

skeletal muscle

noun
  • Fat-free mass consists of lean mass and skeletal muscle mass.
    — New Atlas, 28 Oct. 2024
  • About 95% is stored in skeletal muscle and 5% in the brain and heart.
    — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2026
  • Blood flow and stream of glucose to the skeletal muscles increase.
    — Arash Javanbakht and Linda Saab, Smithsonian, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The larvae can end up all over, reaching skeletal muscles, the heart, and the brain, which is rich in oxygen.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
  • Evidence from one recent study even suggests that skeletal muscles may be involved—at least in mice.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 21 Sep. 2017
  • This mechanism works by using the contraction of skeletal muscles to push blood through veins.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 30 Jan. 2025
  • For example, skeletal muscle cells make a protein called myostatin that keeps them from growing too large.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Mar. 2022
  • About 20% of the body's total magnesium is stored in skeletal muscle.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Insulin can tell cells in the skeletal muscle, the fat, and the liver to take up the glucose from the blood and either use it or store it.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Unlike fatty pigs, bony chickens, and sinewy monkeys, eel meat was almost all soft skeletal muscle.
    — Manvir Singh, Wired, 14 July 2022
  • The hallmark of Duchenne is the absence of dystrophin, a protein in skeletal muscle.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 4 July 2018
  • Creatine is often used as a supplement to help build skeletal muscle.
    — Kirstyn Hill, Pharmd, Mph, Health, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Your diaphragm is a skeletal muscle housed in the lower portion of your rib cage, attaching to your lower ribs.
    — Dana Santas, CNN, 23 June 2021
  • Cells are triggered to turn into skeletal muscle, fat and connective tissues.
    — Jonel Aleccia and Laura Ungar, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023
  • The muscles that most of us are familiar with, says Putrino, are the skeletal muscles.
    — Popular Science, 1 Jan. 2019
  • Muscle mass refers to the total amount of muscle in the body, including skeletal muscle mass and cardiac muscles.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • This has led to a large interest in the development of weight-loss drugs that may not have as much of an effect on skeletal muscle mass as semaglutide does.
    — Sara Reardon, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Females also tend to have a greater number of estrogen receptors on their skeletal muscles compared with males.
    — Cara Ocobock, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Most of the time skeletal muscles contract on command—the brain produces the order, which the nerves convey and the muscles execute.
    — Science Buddies, Scientific American, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The drug also caused serious injury to the eels' skeletal muscle, which was slow to heal after the eels were removed from the water with the cocaine.
    — Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Daily exercise and maintaining skeletal muscle volume as you age are among the most potent forms of preventive health care.
    — Jordan D. Metzl, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Liquid collagen can have a positive effect on skeletal muscle.
    — Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 15 Dec. 2025
  • From your biceps and triceps to your quads and glutes, your skeletal muscles contain slow-twitch (type I) and fast-twitch (type II).
    — Tiffany Ayuda, Health, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Cisatracurium is a paralytic used in surgeries as a skeletal muscle relaxant.
    — Jacob Gershman, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2018
  • The cells are fed oxygen and nutrients like sugar and minerals, and can grow into skeletal muscle that can be harvested within a few weeks.
    — Jacob Bunge, WSJ, 16 July 2018
  • LeBrasseur and his colleagues at the Mayo Clinic are looking at senescent cells in skeletal muscle.
    — Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The process repeats itself over and over, gradually building up segments, from which vertebrae and skeletal muscle are made.
    — Adam Mann, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Could beet juice enhance the heart’s ability to deliver oxygen-carrying blood, and help keep the skeletal muscle strong, in such patients?
    — Rodrigo Pérez Ortega, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2019
  • That's a problem, since some pre-workout products have been associated with health outcomes like skeletal muscle breakdown, strokes and even death.
    — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In mice, skeletal muscle cells can be regrown after 14 days postmortem, while fibroblast cells from sheepand goats can be cultured up to a month or so postmortem.
    — Peter A Noble, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2024

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