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What muscle can do?
Muscles can contract and shorten
Why do muscles shorten when they contract?
Muscles shorten when they contract because the muscle fibers within the muscle bundle slide past each other, causing the muscle to contract and pull on the attached bones, resulting in movement.
What muscle such as the heart muscle does its job without thinking about it?
Involuntary muscles contract subconsciously.
How is the muscular system and respitory system connected?
The muscles that cause the lungs to expand and contract and those in the windpipe are part of the muscular system. The circulatory system carries Oxygen from the lungs to the muscles, then carries carbon dioxide from the muscles to be expelled by the lungs. The blood vessels throughout the body have integrated muscle.
What is the difference between muscles and tendons?
Muscles contract to facilitate movement. Tendons attach muscles to bones. Ligaments attach bones to other bones.
What branch of nerves carries a message to the brain from a muscle?
afferent
Which muscle type can voluntarily contract and relax?
Skeletal muscles .
What does it mean when you say that muscles contract?
It means your muscle is in use
What muscle contract during inhalation and what muscles contract during exhalation?
The intercostal muscles, (muscles between the ribs), contract.
How do you move your muscles?
When you want to move a muscle, your brain sends a message out to the muscle you want to move, and the muscle sends a message back to your brain that your moving it and where.
What would happen to a muscle's ability to contract if calcium levels within the muscle were low?
Muscles cannot contract without calcium
Contractile and non-contractile heart muscles?
The non-contractile element are skeletal muscles that don't contract such as Epimysium,Perimysium and, Endomysium. Contractile muscle contract as a whole muscle instead of single bundles of muscle fibers
