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The answer to that question is: Did you know you have more than 600 muscles in your body? They help you do almost everything - from pumping blood throughout your body to lifting your heavy backpack. You control some of your muscles and others, like your heart, do their jobs without you thinking about them at all. Muscles are all made of the same material, a type of elastic tissue (sort of like the material in a rubber band). Thousands, or even tens of thousands, of small fibers make up each muscle. You have three different types of muscles in your body: smooth muscle, cardiac (say: kar-dee-ak) muscle, and skeletal (say: skel-uh-tul) muscle. Smooth muscles are sometimes also called involuntary muscles and they are usually in sheets, or layers, with one layer of muscle behind the other. You can't control this type of muscle. Your brain and body tell these muscles what to do without you even thinking about it. You can't use your smooth muscles to make a muscle in your arm or jump into the air. But smooth muscles are at work all over your body. In your stomach and digestive system, they contract (tighten up) and relax to allow food to make its journey through the body. Your smooth muscles come in handy if you're sick and you need to throw up. The muscles push the food back out of the stomach so it comes up through the esophagus (say: ih-sah-fuh-gus) and out of the mouth. Smooth muscles are also found in your bladder. When they're relaxed, they allow you to hold in urine (pee) until you can get to the bathroom. Then they contract so that you can push the urine out. These muscles are also in a woman's uterus, which is where a baby develops. There they help to push the baby out of the mother's body when it's time to be born. You'll find smooth muscles at work Behind the Scenes in your eyes, too. These muscles keep the eyes focused. The muscle that makes up the heart is called cardiac muscle. It is also known as the myocardium (say: my-uh-kar-dee-um). The thick muscles of the heart contract to pump blood out and then relax to let blood back in after it's circulated through the body. Just like smooth muscle, cardiac muscle works all by itself with no help from you. A special group of cells within the heart are known as the pacemaker of the heart because it controls the heartbeat. yourwelcome
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What helps muscles do their job?
Oxygen.
Where is the largest skeletal muscles located and what is their job?
In your thigh
Are there any muscles that do a similar job to your tongue?
yes
What is the proteins job in a cell?
It forms bones and muscles
What muscle such as the heart muscle does its job without thinking about it?
Involuntary muscles contract subconsciously.
Which muscles do the job of lifting?
Legs and back
What job does the ligament perform?
The igament performs the job of connecting muscles to each other. love Nae
What muscle such as the heart muscle does there job without thinking about it?
lungs, for one. heart, lungs, and tongue.
A muscle such as the heart muscle that does its job without thinking about it?
involuntary muscles
Why doesn't a kidney have muscles?
Because it doesn't need it for it's job.
What is the musculars job?
withoiut muscles we would just flop to the floor
What is the job of ligaments?
The job of ligaments is to hold bones together. They are similar to tendons which attach bones and muscles together.
