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If your brain tells your leg muscles to contract what carries the message to the leg muscle?
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∙ 14y ago
the nerves and the nervous system
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What muscle can do?
Muscles can contract and shorten
The only tissue that is able to contract and shorten in the body?
muscles
Possible message that one cell might send to another cell?
brain cells send messages to muscle cells to contract muscles
What tells muscles when to contract?
A Nerve cell tells a muscle when to contract.
What is the function of the muscle fibers?
muscle fibers contract the muscles when stimulated.
What muscle such as the heart muscle does its job without thinking about it?
Involuntary muscles contract subconsciously.
How is the muscular system and respitory system connected?
The muscles that cause the lungs to expand and contract and those in the windpipe are part of the muscular system. The circulatory system carries Oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, then carries carbon dioxide from the muscles to be expelled by the lungs. The blood vessels throughout the body have integrated muscle.
What is the difference between muscles and tendons?
Muscles contract to facilitate movement. Tendons attach muscles to bones. Ligaments attach bones to other bones.
What branch of nerves carries a message to the brain from a muscle?
afferent
What does it mean when you say that muscles contract?
It means your muscle is in use
Which muscle type can voluntarily contract and relax?
Skeletal muscles .
What muscle contract during inhalation and what muscles contract during exhalation?
The intercostal muscles, (muscles between the ribs), contract.
