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unlike the heart muscle, which is an involuntary muscle, the skeletal muscles are voluntary(movement by choice). these muscles rely on joint mobility with the skeletal bones for leverage. this joint mobility exists because of the tendons that attach muscle to bones through connective tissue, and the types of connective tissue depends on the joint connecting the bones
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∙ 13y agoCardiac muscle is dense and packed tightly. The muscle fibers are striated and branched and have intercalated discs. The nature of the heart muscle is to communicate fiber to fiber so that each fiber can work with the others to achieve the coordinated pumping action that we need out heart to do.
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How do you describe the cardiac muscle?
Cardiac muscle is involuntary striated muscle. The cells of cardiac muscle have only one nucleus. The layer of the heart that contains cardiac muscle is called the myocardium.
What structure is found in cardiac muscle tissue but not skeletal muscle tissue?
Heart and Stomach
How would you describe the cells of the cardiac muscle?
What is one of the most identifiable characteristics of cardiac tissue
What does not describe a cardiac muscle tissue?
what tissue is not a cardic tissue
How does the structure of cardiac myocytes and intercalated discs follow the function of cardiac muscle tissue and the heart?
The structure of the heart is very complex. Cardiac myocytes and intercalated discs follow the function of cardiac muscle tissue and the heart make up part of this very complex system
What structure allows for uniform contraction of the cardiac muscle?
Intercalated discs
Which type of muscle is the heart made of?
cardiac
What does the unique structure of cardiac muscle play in its function?
Cardiac muscle fibres contain GAP JUNCTION in the intercalated disc which makes them to function as a FUNCTIONAL SYNCYTIUM
Name a structure that receives signals from autonomic nervous system?
Smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, gland
What characteristic does not describe cardiac muscle tissue?
Cardiac muscle tissue is specifically muscle tissue of the heart. It is smooth just like skeletal muscle tissue but has special characteristics that help it to contract at fast, steady rates.
What structure lets calcium ions enter cardiac muscle cells?
sarcoplasmic reticulum
What is structure of muscular system?
It all depends on which type of muscle: smooth, cardiac or striated.
