Striated Muscle: Muscle
tissue, including all the skeletal muscles, that consists of
myofibrils. Striated muscles are composed of bundles of parallel,
striated fibers. Each striated muscle is covered by a thin
connective epimysium and divided into bundles of sheathed fibers
containing smaller myofribrils. The muscle’s contractile
units, or sarcomeres, comprise the larger protein strands or
myofribrils.