•skeletal muscle (voluntary muscle of vertebrates, which is striated and anchored by tendons to bone and is used to effect skeletal movement such as locomotion)
köken: Sanskritic formation from ऐच्छिक (aicchik, “voluntary”) + मांसपेशी (mānspeśī, “muscle”); calque of English voluntary muscle. Sometimes also shortened and written as ऐच्छिक पेशी (aicchik peśī).