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Muscle Tissue
Human Anatomy 232
Term | Definition |
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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 |