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What characteristics of cardiac muscle contracts the heart as a unit?
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Where is Cardiac muscle found and what does it do?
Cardiac muscle is found in the heart. It contracts, causing the heart to beat and blood to circulate through out the body.
Why do they say that the heart is a muscle?
Because your heart is a muscle, a cardiac muscle. a muscles job is to contract an that is exactly what the heart does, it contracts to pump blood.
In the heart what job dos the muscle tissue have?
The heart is made up of muscle tissue (cardiac muscle). The muscle tissue contracts to pump blood.
Which type of muscle is the heart made of?
cardiac
Is a heart a cardiac muscle?
Unlike other types of muscle, cardiac muscle never gets tired. It works automatically and constantly without ever pausing to rest. Cardiac muscle contracts to squeeze blood out of your heart, and relaxes to fill your heart with blood. Unlike skeletal muscle tissue, its contraction is usually not under conscious control
What you call when a muscle contracts involuntarily?
cardiac and smooth
In which part of the body would you find the cardiac muscle?
cardiac muscles are located in the heart only
What type of muscle is found only in the walls of the heart?
Cardiac muscle forms the muscular wall of the heart. Cardiac muscle is involuntary muscle.
What type of muscle is the heart formed from?
The heart is made of smooth and cardiac muscle
Myocardium is made of?
The myocardium is the middle layer of the walls of the heart, made of cardiac muscle, that contracts to push out blood.
What is the muscle tissue found in the heart?
Smooth cardiac muscle.
Does cardiac muscle have a relation to the heart?
Yes, its what most of the heart is made out of.
