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Both types of muscle come in a variety of sizes. In general the larger muscles are the striated muscles. The power of a muscle is generally proportional to its cross sectional area (bigger is usually more powerful).
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How is smooth muscle significantly different from striated muscle?
Smooth muscle shortens and stretches to a greater extent than does striated muscle.
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.
What type of muscle is invoulntary and not striated?
smooth muscle. stomach
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.
What muscle is striated superiorly and smooth inferiorly?
The esophagus
Is cardiac muscle striated?
Cardiac Muscle is smooth but looks striated
