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Muscle Tissue
Human Anatomy 232
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Skeletal Tissue | Striated, mutlinucleated, voluntary movement, attached to bones and sometimes skin |
| Striations | the overlapping pattern of parallel thick and thin contractile protein filaments inside the cell |
| Smooth muscle tissue | non-striated, centrally located nucleus, involuntary movement, Located in hollow organs |
| Cardiac tissue | striated, intercalated discs, involuntary movement, located in the heart |
| Intercalated disk | strong gap junctions between cells |
| 3 types of Muscle Tissue | Skeletal, smooth, and cardiac |
| Function of Skeletal Muscle Tissue | Move bones |
| Function of Cardiac Muscle Tissue | Pump blood |
| Function of Smooth Muscle Tissue | contract to move material through tubes |
| One Location of Smooth Muscle | Small intestine |