three types of muscle Flashcards

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3 types of muscle

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skeletal, cardiac, smooth

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What does the skeletal muscle look like, what does it control, is it voluntary or involuntary movement?

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  • Striated muscle attached to bones of the skeleton
  • Control body movement
  • Voluntary control; responds to somatic motor neurons
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What does the cardiac muscle look like, what does it control, is it voluntary or involuntary movement?

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  • Striated muscle found only in the heart
  • Moves blood through the circulatory system
  • Involuntary control; responds to autonomic innervation, spontaneous contraction, modulated by the endocrine system
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What does the smooth muscle look like, what does it control, is it a voluntary or involuntary movement?

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  • Primary muscle of the internal organs and tubes
  • Influence the movement of material into, out of and within the body
  • Involuntary control; responds to autonomic innervation, spontaneous contraction, modulated by the endocrine system
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-large Muscle fiber
-multinucleate cells that appear striped or striated under the microscope

(Muscle fiber, nuclei, striations)

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Skeletal

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Fibers are also striates, smaller branched, and uninucleate. Cells are joined in series by junctions called intercalated disks

(Nucleus, muscle fiber, intercalated disk, striations)

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Cardiac muscle

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Fiber are small and lack striations
(nucleus, muscle fiber)

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Smooth

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