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| Structure of a skeletal muscle. (Endomysium labeled at bottom center. ) | |
| Gray's | subject #103 373 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | e_08/12332479 |
The endomysium, literally meaning within the muscle, is a layer of connective tissue that ensheaths a muscle fiber and is composed mostly from reticular fibers. Elsevier, the world's largest Publisher of Medical and Scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group It also contains capillaries, nerves and lymphatics. Capillaries are the smallest of a body's Blood vessels measuring 5-10 μm in diameter which connect Arterioles and Venules and enable the interchange A nerve is an enclosed cable-like bundle of peripheral Axons (the long slender projections of Neurons. The lymphatic system in Vertebrates is a network of conduits that carry a clear fluid called Lymph.
The term "cardiac skeleton" is sometimes considered synonymous with endomysium, but sometimes it refers to the combination of the endomysium and perimysium. Perimysium is a sheath of Connective tissue which groups individual Muscle fibers (anywhere between 10 to 100 or more into bundles or fascicles See
External links
- UIUC Histology Subject 777
- Endomysium at eMedicine Dictionary
- Illustration at wku.edu
- Organology at UC Davis Musculoskeletal/muscle/skeletal1/skeletal3
- MedEd at Loyola histo/practical/muscle/hp7-42.html
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