Term: skeletal muscle sarcomere
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Name: skeletal muscle
Synonyms:
Definition: Muscle, composed of long cylindrical, multinucleated cells that attaches to the skeleton via tendons.
Ontology: Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0005277]
Name: sarcomere
Synonyms:
Definition: The repeating unit of a myofibril in a muscle cell, composed of an array of overlapping thick and thin filaments between two adjacent Z discs.
Ontology: GO: Cellular Component [GO:0030017]    QuickGO    AmiGO
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