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What is muscle atrophy?
Muscle atrophy refers to the wasting or loss of muscle tissue resulting from disease or lack of use.
What causes your muscle in your arm too shrink?
lack of use.
What is the condition in which a muscle becomes smaller due to lack of use?
Tatrophy
What what term refers to the degeneration of muscle caused by lack of use?
Atrophy.
What is the medical term meaning muscle weakening from lack of use?
atrophy
What is diuse atrophy?
diuse atrophy (muscle loss or weakness from lack of use)
A muscle cramp is likely due to a lack of?
A muscle cramp is likely due to a lack of
What are the disorders of muscular system?
atrophy wasting away of muscle due to lack of use
Do smooth muscle cells lack striations?
Yes they do lack striations. They do not have striations because they do not have sarcomeres. Instead, smoothe muscle contracts as one unit through the use of electrical impulses.
What two prominent muscles are affected in muscle atrophy?
Muscle atrophy can affect any muscle within the body. Atrophy is a wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use. Any muscle is subject to atrophy from either lack of use or disease. This is especially true after injury or extended bedrest. To answer your question there are no two prominent muscles that are exclusively affected in muscle atrophy.
What muscle that lack striations?
smooth
Why do wheelchair bound person have weak lower limbs?
Because the muscle begins to atrophy due to lack of use.
