Skeletal Muscle Anatomy

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Skeletal Muscle Anatomy

• Human Anatomy and Physiology

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Skeletal Muscle Anatomy

• The reason skeletal muscles are not ripped apart
  as they exert force is that thousands of their
  fibers are bundled together by connective tissue,
  which provides strength and support to the muscle
  as a whole.

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Skeletal Muscle Anatomy

• Each muscle fiber is enclosed in a delicate
  connective tissue sheath called an endomysium.
• Several muscle fibers are then wrapped by another
  membrane called a perimysium to form a bundle
• Many fascicles are bound together by an overcoat
  of connective tissue called an epimysium, which
  covers the entire muscle.

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Skeletal Muscle Anatomy

• These epimysium blend into the tendons, which
  attach muscles indirectly to bones, cartilages,
  or connective tissue coverings of each other.

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