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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 kind of muscle can stretch or maintain tension for long periods of time?
Smooth muscles.
Are there such things as partially contracted muscle fibers?
That is very good question! You do not have any thing like partially contracted muscle fibres, most probably. What you have got is partially contracted muscles. The muscle is more or less contracted as per the number of muscle fibres that are contracted at any given time.
What type of activity is testing the ability of your muscles to move for long periods of time?
endurance
What type of activities is testing the ability of your muscles to move for long periods of time?
endurance
What type of activity is testing the ability of your muscles move for long periods of time?
endurance
What muscle condition could be caused by long periods of immobility?
Long periods of immobility can cause muscle atrophy. This means that the muscles become weaker and thinner from disuse.
Where are your smooth and your cardiac muscles at?
Cardiac means anything to do with the heart so go and have a good long think about that... Smooth muscle is found covering organs like the stomach.
Sebutkan ciri ciri otot lurik Google Translation Mention the characteristic features of striated muscle?
Striated muscles contain bundled striations visible lines under a microscope. These muscles are attached to the skeleton and found at long bones, such as the muscles of thighs. Unlike smooth muscle, striated muscles contain repeating functional units called sarcomere. The muscles are under voluntary control (unlike smooth muscles) and permit strenuous work.
Two types of smooth muscle?
Smooth muscles are involuntary meaning that you cannot control them. They are found around organs in the body such as arteries, stomach, and intestines. Smooth muscles are .5mm long and are spindle shaped. Smooth Muscles also contain nerve endings.
What can smooth muscle do?
smooth muscle is another involuntary muscle you cannot control, it is found in the walls of the internal organs and blood vessels, made up of sheets of cells that are ideally shape to form organs such as digestive tract and reproductive tract and they make up internal organs, smooth muscles are generally spherical, it is also contract slowly and can remain contracted for a long period of time without hiring, they have one nucleus.
What are the three kinds of muscles?
There are three kinds of muscles in our bodies: (1) Voluntary muscles, which include the skeletal and facial muscles; (2) involuntary muscles, which are found among the muscles in the blood vessels, intestines, stomach, bladder and uterus, and (3) heart muscle.Voluntary muscles are also termed "striated" or striped muscles, because under a microscope they show alternating light and dark stripes or ridges running crosswise. Most of these muscles are long and narrow, as in the arms and legs; but others are sheet like, as those of the abdomen and the back. Voluntary muscles are endowed with a rich nerve and blood supply so that they can accomplish their purpose. Some, such as respiratory muscles, might be said to be both voluntary and involuntary. We use them voluntarily when we take a deep breath, but most of the time, and especially when we are asleep; they work without any volition on our part.By way of contrast, involuntary muscles are termed "smooth," for they are without these striped ridges. With the aid of the electron microscope a striking and purposeful difference has been discovered between the structure of the voluntary and the involuntary or smooth muscles. In smooth muscles the filaments that do the actual work of contracting are arrayed in parallel, overlapping one another, and at an angle of as much as 10 percent to the long axis of the muscle cell. This oblique arrangement of the filaments in smooth muscles may give them as much as ten times the strength that they would otherwise have and so enables them to sustain forceful contractions over long periods of time. On the other hand, the way the filaments lie in voluntary or striped muscles, in series or end to end, permits them to move with greater velocity or speed. And the amount of contraction can be far greater than in smooth muscle.The muscle of the heart is in a class by itself. Because of its great work load it has a special kind of construction, making it the strongest muscle in man. In woman, only the muscle of the uterus, needed to expel a baby at birth, is said to be stronger. Heart muscle is constructed after the pattern of voluntary muscle, but it functions as an involuntary muscle.
