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What would happen if the smooth muscles in a persons body could not contract?
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∙ 11y ago
There are a few types of muscles. The most "important" (term used very loosely here) are the smooth muscles, they control all bodily functions that are automatic (heartbeat, digestion, ext.) if you were missing any smooth muscle, you could not survive longer than 3 weeks (for digestion) 3 minutes (heartbeat).
The second type, which I am guessing you mean in the question, is skeletal muscles. If you did not have those muscles, life would be possible, but you would be like a sea sponge, food HAS to come to you, reproduction would not be possible in the manner that we are used to (it would need to be either asexual, or like plants).
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∙ 6y ago
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What are two involuntary muscles?
Smooth muscles are involuntary in action means muscle that the muscles contract without conscious control. Smooth muscles are found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels.
What are four types of movement controlled by smooth muscles?
Smooth muscles push materials through passageways, remove materials from body parts, make body openings larger and smaller, and contract and restrict tubes in your body.
Give examples of three types of muscles?
Smooth Muscle, Cardiac Muscle, and Skeletal Muscle
Do smooth muscles bring about movements by pulling on bones across movable joints?
No, skeletal muscles do, because smooth muscles deal with your internal organs.
Are cardiac muscles considered smooth muscles?
These muscles are found only in the heart.
Can you contract your smooth and cardiac muscles on purpose?
Smooth Muscles can, but Cardiac Muscles can not.
What the organ that can relax contract and can move bones in the body?
smooth muscles
Is smooth muscles alternately contract and relax endlessly throughout a persons life?
Yes the heart does contract and relax for every moment of ones life .This action enables the blood to circulate the body efficiently
Smooth muscles that produce goose pimples when they contract are the?
Arrector pili muscles
What muscle such as the heart muscle does its job without thinking about it?
Involuntary muscles contract subconsciously.
How is cardiac muscles similar to smooth muscles?
they both contract and relax to cause movement and both are uninucleated.
What controls the skeletal and smooth muscles by telling them to either contract or relax?
CNS
Can smooth muscles maintain a steady state of contraction?
Yes. Smooth muscle can contract cell by cell. This causes muscles to be contracted for very long periods of time.
What do a blood vessels bladder and an airway have in common?
They are all smooth muscles that contract involuntarily.
What are considered smooth muscles in the body?
Smooth muscles are found in hollow parts of the body. For example they are found in the stomach, intestines, blood vessels, and the bladder. They can contract in all directions.
Are your leg muscles smooth muscles?
No, the muscles in your leg are skeletal muscles. Smooth muscle is found for example in vessels and the gastrointistinal tract. Yes smooth muscles are involuntary, which means they contract and relax without our conscious decision for them to do so, however we have control over when we want to move our leg muscles, so it cannot be smooth muscle, they are as said before my answer, quite rightly, skeletal muscles
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.
