Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The external sheath of connective tissue surrounding a muscle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The connective-tissue sheath of a muscle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a layer of
connective tissue which surrounds individualmuscles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin epimȳsium : epi– + Greek mūs, muscle; see mūs- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
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Each complete muscle is encased in a sheath called epimysium which is encased in sheets of connective tissue, deep fascia, that separate individual muscles.
Muscles Part 1 2008
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Striped or voluntary muscle is composed of bundles of fibers each enclosed in a delicate web called the perimysium in contradistinction to the sheath of areolar tissue which invests the entire muscle, the epimysium.
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Only few isolated melanin-secreting B16-F0 cells were detected in the epimysium closely associated with the
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ara Parlakian et al. 2010
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