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What is a smooth muscle that contracts or relaxes to change the volume of the chest?
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∙ 11y ago
The Diaphragm.
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What type of muscle is located in the walls of the digestive organs?
Longitudinal and circular muscles. These are known as antagonistic muscles, meaning that one relaxes whilst the other contracts.
Organ that relaxes and contracts?
Smooth muscles
What is the name for the rhythmic smooth muscle?
The rhythmic smooth muscle is called the visceral smooth muscle. It is found in the walls of organs such as the intestines, uterus, and blood vessels, and it contracts and relaxes spontaneously to generate rhythmic movements.
What is the type of muscle that squeezes and relaxes without stopping?
the smooth muscle
What is the structure of striated muscle cells?
Striated muscle contracts and relaxes in short, intense bursts, whereas smooth muscle sustains longer or even near permanent contractions.
Pumped back into the smooth ER when muscle relaxes?
Calcium ions
Which muscle tissue skeletal smooth or cardiac changes internal volume of an organ as it contracts?
"When smooth muscle contracts, the cavity of an organ alternately becomes smaller or enlarges so that substances are propelled through the organ along a specific pathway"Smooth muscle
What is the name of the substance that is pumped back into the smooth er when muscle relaxes?
ATP
What are contract muscles?
Smooth Muscle contractions are regulated by calcium ions. The smooth muscle differs from skeletal muscle in that its contracts from all sides.
What is the action called when the smooth muscle of the artery contracts?
Vasoconstriction!
When the smooth muscle of the artery contracts the action is called?
Vasoconstriction!
What kind of tissue contracts?
Muscle tissue specializes in contraction. This includes cardiac, smooth, and striated.
