What is skeletal muscle-?

Answer 1

attached to bones

Answer 2

skeletal muscle is also known as straited muscle because its fibers appear to be striped, and as voluntary muscle because it is the only muscle type subject to conscious control.

IMPROVED ANSWER:

Skeletal muscle is a type of striated muscle, which usually attaches to tendons. Skeletal muscles are used to create movement, by applying force to bones and joints via contraction. They generally contract voluntarily (via somatic nerve stimulation), although they can contract involuntarily through reflexes. The whole muscle is wrapped in a special type of connective tissue, epimysium.

Muscle cells (also called muscle fibers) are cylindrical, and are multinucleated (in vertebrates and insects). The nuclei of these muscles are located in the peripheral aspect of the cell, just under the plasma membrane, which vacates the central part of the muscle fiber for myofibrils. (Conversely, when the nucleus is located in the center it is considered a pathologic condition known as centronuclear myopathy.)

Skeletal muscles have one end (the "origin") attached to a bone closer to the centre of the body's axis and the other end (the "insertion") is attached across a joint to another bone further from the body's axis. The bones rotate about the joint and move relative to one another by contraction of the muscle

Skeletal muscle fibers are very unusual because they may be... a foot or more in length, and each cell contains hundreds of nuclei.

Answer 3

Skeletal muscle is muscle that is connected to the bones of the body that help the mechanics and movement of the body.