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muscular system
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| involuntary muscle | a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels |
| voluntary muscle | muscle whose action is normally controlled by an individual |
| Skeletal muscle | It is a form of striated muscle tissue which is under the voluntary control of the somatic nervous system. |
| tendon | a flexible but inelastic cord of strong fibrous collagen tissue attaching a muscle to a bone. |
| striated muscle | muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils in the cells are aligned in parallel bundles, so that their different regions form stripes visible in a microscope |
| smooth muscle | muscle tissue in which the contractile fibrils are not highly ordered, occurring in the gut and other internal organs and not under voluntary control |
| cardiac muscle | found in the heart |