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How is smooth muscle significantly different from striated muscle?
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∙ 11y ago
Smooth muscle shortens and stretches to a greater extent than does striated muscle.
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What is a type of muscle that is voluntary and not striated?
There is none. The only type of non-striated muscle is smooth muscle and smooth muscle is involuntary muscle.
Are smooth muscles striated or smooth?
Smooth muscle is the muscle inside of the digestive system so it has to be involuntary.
Is the cardiac muscle branched?
No. Smooth muscle and cardiac muscle are two different types of muscle tissue. Smooth muscle does not have striations (or stripes) and is located in the organs. Cardiac muscle is striated (has stripes) and fits together with gap junctions that allow for quick passage.
What is true regarding the structure of smooth muscle?
The smooth muscle is striated and this allows for a smooth sliding across each other when muscles contract and extend smooth muscle isn't striated, that's skeltal muscle. but im trying to find the answer to the question aswell!
What type of muscle is invoulntary and not striated?
smooth muscle. stomach
What are some different types of muscles?
There are three muscle types, skeletal, smooth and cardiac. Skeletal and cardiac are both striated muscle, whereas smooth muscle is not.
Is the cardiac muscle smooth?
no, it is branching and striated.
Is the tongue made of smooth muscle?
no..only skelet muscle.....
What muscle cell type is striated and involuntary?
Skeletal muscle is striated and voluntrary. Smooth muscle, as is found around the blood vessels and in many organs, is not striated and involuntary. The heart (cardiac muscle) is the only place you have striated involuntary muscle.
What is cardiac smooth muscle?
There is nothing really called 'cardiac smooth muscle'. Cardiac muscle is striated like skeletal muscle but it is not under your control like skeletal muscle is. It acts more like smooth muscle because of this reason. But we only use the terms smooth muscle, striated (skeletal) muscle or cardiac muscle.
Smooth and striated are terms that can be used to describe?
Muscle.
Which type of muscles is not straited?
Smooth muscle is not striated.
