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muscles wouldn't move if it weren't elastic...
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Are smooth muscles striated or smooth?
Smooth muscle is the muscle inside of the digestive system so it has to be involuntary.
Where are elastic Cartilages located at?
Cartlage, (elastic), conects bone to bone, ligaments, (non-elastic), connect muscle to bone.
Muscle tissue that shows no striations?
Smooth Muscle
Give examples of three types of muscles?
Smooth Muscle, Cardiac Muscle, and Skeletal Muscle
Does the alveoli have smooth muscle?
no.
What layer of an artery consists mostly of smooth muscle?
Arterial walls are more muscular than the walls of veins. This muscle is smooth involuntary muscle.
What are the characteristics of a muscular vein?
The tunica interna of a muscular vein consists of an endothelium with a basal lamina, a thin subendothelial layer with smooth muscle cells, and a thin internal elastic membrane. Its tunica media has several layers of circularly arranged smooth muscle cells dispersed with collagen and elastic fibres. The smooth muscle cells may be arranged longitudinally in its tunica media. Its externa is generally thicker than its tunica media and has collagen fibres and a network of elastic fibres.
What is the layer in the wall of an artery that helps maintain blood pressure?
smooth muscle and elastic connective tissue
Which of the following is a difference between arteries and veins?
artery walls have more elastic tissue and smooth muscle than veins,
What are the characteristics of elastic arteries?
The tunica interna of an elastic artery has subendothelial laminas of elastic fibres. Its tunica media has many fenestrated elastic membranes alternating with smooth muscle fibres. An elastic artery also has external elastic lamina. Its tunica externa is thin and contains vasa vasorum.
What is a vessel with a thick layer of smooth muscle and elastic fibers that allow for expansion?
An artery is a vessel with a thick medial layer, consisting of smooth muscle to allow for constriction or dilation in order to control blood flow through the vessel.
What is the muscle that is found in the small intestine?
smooth musclesmooth muscle
Is an ulcer a cardiac muscle or a smooth muscle?
Smooth muscle
What layer of an artery consists mostly of smooth muscles?
the tunica media is made of smooth muscles and elastic fibers.
The main component of the tunica media of muscular arteries is?
Tunica Media or just Media is the central layer of arteries or veins. In the artery, it is composed of elastic tissue and smooth cell muscles.
Which muscle tissue is involuntary and not striated?
SmoothI'm POSITIVE it's the Skeletal Muscle!
Is muscle cell is smooth when hungry?
No, "smooth" muscle is a type of muscle.
