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muscle
Skeletal muscles (commonly referred to as muscles) are organs of the vertebrate muscular system and typically are attached by tendons to bones of a skeleton. The muscle cells of skeletal muscles are much longer than in the other types of muscl ...
is a contractile tissue in an animal's body used especially for movement.
Muscle or Muscles may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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''Muscle'' (TV series), comedy set inside a fictional gym in New York City
*"Muscles", an episode of the animated TV series ''
Aqua TV Show Show
''Aqua TV Show Show'' is the alternative title given to the tenth season of the animated television series ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force''. The tenth season aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. The ...
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, Australian electronica musician Chris Copulos
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Les Musclés, a 1990s French band
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''Muscles'' (album) (2007), by hip-hop musician Mele Mel
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"Muscles" (song), by
Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress. She rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group the Supremes, who became Motown's most successful act during the 1960s and one of the world's best-selling girl groups o ...
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M.U.S.C.L.E., small pink action figures produced in the United States in the 1980s
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''M.U.S.C.L.E.'' (video game), NES wrestling game based on the manga and anime ''Kinnikuman''
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Mr. Muscles
Mr. Muscles is a fictional comic book superhero created in 1956 by writer Jerry Siegel for Charlton Comics, and drawn by Bill Fraccio for the first of two issues of his namesake comic, and by the team of penciler Charles Nicholas and inker V ...
, a superhero in two 1956 comic book issues
*Mister Muscle, a member of the DC Comics
Hero Hotline
Hero Hotline is a fictional DC Comics corporate superteam introduced in ''Action Comics Weekly'' #637 (cover-dated January 1989). It was created by Bob Rozakis and Stephen DeStefano.
History
Hero Hotline is a corporate 24/7 hero for hire company ...
team
*Masked Muscle, an opponent in the Super NES video game ''
Super Punch-Out!!
is a boxing video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It was released on September 14, 1994 in North America and again in the same region in 1996. It was released in Europe on January 2 ...
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People
*"Muscles", nickname of
Venkatapathy Raju
Sagi Lakshmi Venkatapathy Raju, sometimes spelt Venkapathy Raju (born 9 July 1969) is a former Indian cricketer , cricket administrators & cricket coach. He came into the Indian side in 1989–90 after capturing 32 wickets in the domestic seaso ...
(born 1969), Indian former cricketer
*"Muscles", nickname of
Ken Rosewall
Kenneth Robert Rosewall (born 2 November 1934) is an Australian former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player. He won a record 23 Majors in singles, including eight Grand Slam singles titles and, before the Open Era, a record ...
(born 1934), Australian retired tennis player
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Leo "Muscle" Shoals (1916-1999), American minor league baseball player
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Max Muscle
John Czawlytko (February 22, 1963 – June 27, 2019) was an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling under the ring names Max Muscle, Maxx Muscle and Maxx.
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(1963-2019), former American professional wrestler
Other uses
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ST ''Muscle'' a tugboat in service with the French Government from 1946 to 1951
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MUSCLE (alignment software)
MUltiple Sequence Comparison by Log-Expectation (MUSCLE) is computer software for multiple sequence alignment of protein and nucleotide sequences. It is licensed as public domain. The method was published by Robert C. Edgar in two papers in 2004. ...
, a multiple sequence alignment tool
*MUSCLE,
non-Windows API to Common Access Cards
See also
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Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg (, ; born 18 October 1960), known professionally as Jean-Claude Van Damme (, ), is a Belgian actor, martial artist, filmmaker, and fight choreographer. Born and raised in Brussels, Belgium, at the a ...
(born 1960), Belgian actor and martial artist nicknamed "the Muscles from Brussels"
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Mussel
Mussel () is the common name used for members of several families of bivalve molluscs, from saltwater and Freshwater bivalve, freshwater habitats. These groups have in common a shell whose outline is elongated and asymmetrical compared with other ...
, marine or freshwater species, members of several different families of
clam
Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs. The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the seafloor or riverbeds. Clams have two she ...
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bivalve
Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...
molluscs
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant taxon, extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil sp ...
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Musele (disambiguation)
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