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A muscle spasm is a sudden, spontaneous, uncontrollable and abnormal tightening or contraction of a muscle. The term muscle cramp is also used to describe a muscle spasm anywhere in the body, and when a muscle spasm occurs in the lower leg it is often called a "charlie horse."
Spasms of the muscles will often be triggered after a sudden movement in a muscle that has not been used for a while, even if the movement is not forceful. Examples of this are muscle cramps that happen while asleep or after prolonged sitting. This is why athletes do warm up exercises before activity to prevent muscle spasm.
Muscle spasms are not uncommon, and can become more frequent and intense with age, when fatigued as from overwork, or when the mineral levels of the body are lower than normal for normal muscle function. This is why athletes and those who work in high temperatures take salt tablets or drink fluids to replace the minerals that are lost from excess sweating.
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What type of muscle is striated?
Striated muscle tissue is muscle tissue that has repeating tubular muscle cells. Striated muscles include skeletal striated muscle, embryotic branchiomeric muscle, and cardiac muscle.
Which muscle is also called striated striated muscle?
skelatal
Are skeletal muscles striated?
They are striated because striated means kind of stripey and the muscles has stripes of muscle itself.
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 the striated muscle connected to the bones?
Skeletal muscle tissue is striated muscle tissue connected to bones.
Is cardiac muscle a striated muscle?
Cardiac muscle is striated because the only cardiac muscle in your body is your heart and your heart never stops working unless you die.
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.
How is smooth muscle significantly different from striated muscle?
Smooth muscle shortens and stretches to a greater extent than does striated muscle.
Which type of muscle is most like cardiac muscle?
Cardiac muscle is involuntary striated muscle, most similar to skeletal muscle which is voluntary and striated.
Muscle Spasms and Cramps in adults?
how long does muscle spasms last
What is the name of the skeletal muscle?
striated muscle ?
What muscle is striated and involuntary?
cardiac muscle
