February 29, 2012 | healthcaremagic.com. Within hours of the procedure I had a fever of about 102 and body aches, chills, and bad diarrhea with a lot of mucus accompanied by horrific cramps. ...My fever and chills and aches went away last....
Where the misunderstanding often comes in is that muscle is much more dense than fat, so that, by volume, it seems to weigh more. That is, a pound of muscle occupies less space than a pound of fat.
A layer of dense connective tissue, which is known as epimysium and is continuous with the tendon, surrounds each muscle (see the image below). A muscle is composed of numerous bundles of muscle fibers, termed fascicles, which are separated from each other by a connective tissue layer termed perimysium.verview. This article describes the structure, histologic features, and ultrastructural features of normal adult human skeletal muscle and addresses the results of improper specimen handling during muscle biopsy.