epimysium
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| —n , pl -sia | |
| anatomy the sheath of connective tissue that encloses a skeletal muscle | |
| [from New Latin, from | |
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Epimysium
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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epimysium ep·i·mys·i·um (ěp'ə-mĭz'ē-əm, -mĭzh'ē-)
n. pl. ep·i·mys·i·a (-mĭz'ē-ə, -mĭzh'-)
The external sheath of connective tissue surrounding a muscle.
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Example sentences
Each muscle is surrounded by a connective tissue sheath called the epimysium.
Many bundles, or fasciculi, are wrapped together by the epimysium to form a whole muscle.
Fascia, connective tissue outside the epimysium, surrounds and separates the muscles.
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