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Involuntary muscles found inside organs such as the stomach intestines and blood vessels are called?
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Muscles such as those in the blood vessels stomach and intestines work without conscious control.?
Voluntary
What are the function of smooth muscle?
regulates the flow of blood in the arteriesexpels urine from your urinary bladdersends babies out into the world from the uterusregulates the flow of air through the lungs
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 are two involuntary muscles?
Smooth muscles are involuntary in action means muscle that the muscles contract without conscious control. Smooth muscles are found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels.
Is the heart the only involuntary muscule?
No. Muscles lining the intestinal tract and blood vessels are other examples of involuntary muscles.
What are considered smooth muscles in the body?
Smooth muscles are found in hollow parts of the body. For example they are found in the stomach, intestines, blood vessels, and the bladder. They can contract in all directions.
What are three places where smooth muscles can be found?
Your blood vessels intestines bladder and other involuntarily controlled muscles are smooth muscles
What causes uncontrollable muscle movements?
Involuntary muscle movement includes peristalsis in the GI tract and the beating of your heart. Generally involuntary muscles are smooth muscles (intestines, blood vessels), but the cardiac muscles are sometimes categorized as striated due to their structural similarities to skeletal muscles.
What are the differences between cardiac smooth and voluntary muscles?
muscle tissue is either voluntary or involuntary. The heart is an involuntary muscle you don't consciously control this muscle. Smooth muscles are also involuntary and are found in the internal organs such as the bladder, stomach they churn food constrict blood vessels ect...thing you don't have to think about.
What muscles in your body move on their own?
In humans smooth muscles are controlled by the autonomous nervous system. Smooth muscle is found in blood vessels, the digestive tract, the iris and skin. These muscles move or contract in response to automatic signals, e.g. the presence of food in the stomach or bright light in the eyes. Cardiac muscle also contracts automatically, controlled by special groups of pacemaker cells in the heart.
What is another name for involuntary muscles in the viscera and blood vessels?
smooth muscle
What type of muscle tissue are the blood vessels and stomach made of?
The stomach and blood vessels are composed of smooth muscles.
