Muscular Tissue Flashcards
skeletal muscles of the axial and appendicular skeleton (location)
skeletal
three types of muscular tissue
skeletal, cardiac, and smooth
heart (location)
cardiac
walls of blood vessels, digestive, urinary, reproductive, and respiratory tracts (location)
smooth
motion, posture, heat production, and protection (function)
skeletal
pumps blood to all parts of the body (function)
cardiac
motion (constriction of blood vessels and airways, propulsion of foods through gastrointestinal tract, contraction of urinary bladder and gallbladder) (function)
smooth muscle
voluntary, striated, multi-nucleate, fibers/long cells
skeletal muscle
involuntary, striated, single nucleus, branched and short cells, gap juctions/ desmosomes loacted within intercalated discs
cardiac muscle
involuntary, not striated, single nucleus, gap junctions in some
smooth muscle