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Involuntary Muscle

Immerse yourself medical language, page 431:

"Smooth muscles are involuntary, nonstriated muscles."

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Smooth muscle is an involuntary (the organism does not have mental control over) muscle that usually lines the gut, veins and other internal organs. It is made up of non-striated muscle.

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What are examples of smooth muscles?

kidneys, stomach, intestines, bladder, the eyes, the walls of blood vessels. Smooth muscles that are sometimes called visceral muscles. They are thin muscles that look like spindles. They can be found in your skin and your blood vessels and your organs inside your body.


What the organ that can relax contract and can move bones in the body?

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What is another name for involuntary muscles?

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How many muscles are there in the human body which you can not control?

You can not control the smooth muscles as well as cardiac muscles of your body. They are called as involuntary muscles.


What muscles make up walls of most internal organs?

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What i s latch bridge mechanism in smooth muscle?

smooth muscles have the ability to sustain the prolong contraction with a little use of energy.this latching of energy in smooth muscles is called latch phenomena,smooth muscles have ability to reduce strength of stimulus once they have fully contracted


Can you contract your smooth and cardiac muscles on purpose?

Smooth Muscles can, but Cardiac Muscles can not.


What are the smooth muscle fibers called that support the lens?

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Involuntary muscles found inside organs are called?

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