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Yes. There is your heart, and several other involuntary muscles.

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Q: What term is used to describe muscles over which a person cannot exert direct voluntary control?
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How are voluntary muscles from involuntary muscles?

Voluntary muscles are the ones you can control with your mind and the involuntary ones you cannot control, they do their jobs automantically.


What is the difference between voluntary muscle and involuntary muscle?

You can't control involuntary muscles but you can control voluntary muscles.


Is intestine a voluntary muscles?

It's involuntary, we cannot voluntary control our digestion, or the functions of our organs


Type of muscle that can be controlled?

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Is neck involuntary or voluntary?

If you are referring to the skeletal muscles of the neck, then yes. All skeletal muscle are voluntary. You can control when your neck moves, while you cannot control when your heart pumps.


What are voluntary muscles that can be moved at will?

Skeletal muscles are voluntary muscles. By contrast, you cannot voluntarily move your heart muscle.


Is the tongue voluntary or involuntary?

It is voluntary due to the fact that we can move our tongue anywhere inside our mouth and to the 8 muscles that control it that is also called extrinsic and intrinsic muscles. These muscles are voluntary so you can move your tongue to it.


Muscles that you are able to control is?

Voluntary muscles are muscles that you control.


Can a smooth muscle be voluntary?

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What are the muscles called that cannot be controlled?

There are some muscles in the body we cannot control: they are called involuntary muscles and cardiac muscles. Involuntary muscles are found in the digestive tract for example. Cardiac muscles are found in the heart. Neither these two muscle types are controlled. We can control what are called voluntary muscles which are the muscles that were used to move our bones.


Are your small intestine muscles voluntary or involuntary?

It's involuntary, we cannot voluntary control our digestion, or the functions of our organs


Can you control your involuntary organ?

You cannot control your involuntary organ. You can control your voluntary organ.