muscle organ

Definition

Organ consisting of a tissue made up of various elongated cells that are specialized to contract and thus to produce movement and mechanical work[GO].

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Sub-structures

• eye muscle
• muscle of head
• muscle of lower limb
• muscle of neck
• muscle of trunk
• muscle of upper limb
• muscle of vertebral column

Neighbouring structures

• cartilage organ
• ligament organ
• membrane organ
• neural tree organ

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Wikipedia (English)

Identifiers

FMA

5022

UBERON

0001630

Wikidata

Q7365