Tendons connect muscles to bones.
Skeletal muscle is the type attached to bones.
The muscle tissue that is attached to and moves the skeleton is called the skeletal muscle.
Skeletal Muscle
Ligaments attach bone to bone (think patella to femur) and tendons attach muscles to bone (think Achilles tendon).
A hydraulic skeleton is composed of muscle and fluid.
Very few, if any, skeletal muscles in the human body are not attached to bone at the origin or insertion. There are a few muscles which do not have 2 bony attachments, and instead are connected by tendinous sheaths to other muscles - the abdominal muscles come to mind. If we are talking all muscles, there are many - the heart, which is muscle, is not attached to bone. The smooth muscles in the vasculature, eyes, gut, esophagus, etc are not connected to bone. Depends on which muscle you mean. :) J. DeLaughter, DO
Skeletal muscle
Spongy bone
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It's not.
Skeletal muscle is the type attached to bones.
bone, or osseous