Organ or Tissue Function
muscle development
mus·cle de·vel·op·ment
Subclass of:
Musculoskeletal Development
Definitions related to muscle development:
  • Developmental events leading to the formation of adult muscular system, which includes differentiation of the various types of muscle cell precursors, migration of myoblasts, activation of myogenesis and development of muscle anchorage.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (muscle organ development) The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the muscle over time, from its formation to the mature structure. The muscle is an organ consisting of a tissue made up of various elongated cells that are specialized to contract and thus to produce movement and mechanical work.
    Gene Ontology Dictionary
    Gene Ontology Consortium, 2021
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