muscle in English: A part inside your body that pulls on your bones so you can move. (noun)

Translation

A part inside your body that pulls on your bones so you can move.

Word origin

From Latin musculus, meaning little mouse, because a moving muscle was thought to look like a mouse under the skin.

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Here "muscle" is uncountable; it means muscle in general.

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"To pull a muscle" means to hurt one by stretching it too far.

hardest .

The heart is a muscle too.

arm

The long part of your body between your shoulder and your hand.

body

The whole physical part of a person or animal.

strong

Having a lot of power in the body, or hard to break.

leg

One of the two long parts of your body that you use to stand and walk.

bone

One of the hard white parts inside the body that hold it up.

massage

The act of pressing and rubbing a person's body to relax the muscles or take away pain.

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