muscle
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one of the contractile organs of the bodytypes:muscle squelettiquea muscle that is connected at either or both ends to a bone and so move parts of the skeleton; a muscle that is characterized by transverse stripessphinctera ring of muscle that contracts to close an openingmuscle pectoraleither of two large muscles of the chestfessierany one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thighsphincterthe sphincter muscle of the anustricepsany skeletal muscle having three origins (but especially the triceps brachii)type of:organe contractilea bodily organ that contracts
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