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Muscular System GLE'
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Skeletal Muscles | The muscles attached to bones that enable you to move. |
| Smooth Muscles | the muscles found in organs, blood vessels and glands. |
| Cardiac Muscles | Muscles found only in the walls of your heart |
| Voluntary Muscles | Muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual's will; mainly skeletal muscle. |
| Involuntary Muscles | Any of the smooth muscles, except for the cardiac muscle, not under control of the will. |
| Muscles working in pairs | How skeletal muscles move the body, ex. biceps and triceps. |
| Contraction | The shortening of muscle fibers. |
| Extension | The lengthening of muscle fibers. |