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cardiac muscles are located in the heart only

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What muscle is the only one of its kind in the human body?

There are three types of muscles in the body, smooth, skeletal and cardiac. The only place you'll find cardiac muscle is in the heart.


What type of muscle tissue would you find in the heart?

Cardiac muscle tissue and connective tissue would be found in the heart.


What muscle tissue is the tissue of the heart?

Cardiac muscle is found in the heart. The other two types of muscle are smooth and striated (skeletal) muscle.Cardiac muscle, the third kind of muscle (the other two being skeletal and smooth muscle.


Where would you find your calf muscle?

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Where can you find cardiac tissue in an organ?

I dont really understand where you are getting at... Well first of all by organ do you mean body system? Sorry if i was thinking wrong.. Well if it is body system then you can find in the muscle and skeleton system. Cya! :p


Where on the body would you find the pectoral muscle?

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Where would I be able to find the skeletal smooth and cardiac muscle tissue?

Skeletal muscle tissue is primarily found attached to bones throughout the body, enabling voluntary movements. Cardiac muscle tissue is located exclusively in the heart, allowing it to pump blood throughout the circulatory system. Smooth muscle tissue is found in the walls of hollow organs, such as the intestines, blood vessels, and the bladder, facilitating involuntary movements.


Where is the only place you can find cardiac muscles?

Cardiac muscle is a type of involuntary striated muscle found only in the walls of the heart. This is a specialized muscle that, while similar in some fundamental ways to smooth muscle and skeletal muscle, has a unique structure and with an ability not possessed by muscle tissue elsewhere in the body. Cardiac muscle, like other muscles, can contract, but it can also carry an action potential (i.e. conduct electricity), like the neurons that constitute nerves.Furthermore, some of the cells have the ability to generate an action potential, known as cardiac muscle automaticity (meaning the can and do beat on their own).


Why you have different types of muscle?

You have different needs in your body that various muscles take care of. Your bones are there to support your body and hold it up but they need to move in order for you to walk, dance, run, etc. so you have skeletal muscles for that. You have a heart that needs to beat so you have cardiac muscle that caters to that. Cardiac muscle is involuntary muscle because if you have to consciously think to beat your heart, well we would all die! But skeletal muscle is a kind of voluntary muscle as you decide to walk, you don't just randomly find yourself walking without your brain giving the mental command.


What are the importance of the muscular system in the human body?

Without the muscular system- cardiac muscles, smooth muscles and skeletal muscles- we would be unable to move! And as the hear is a muscle (cardiac muscle) no blood would pump around out body. We also need the muscular system to absorb heat and shock, to breathe and to digest food. Also, the muscular system enables our organs to function. Without the muscular system, we would be a bag of bones, about as useful as the skeletons you find sitting at the back of a science classroom!


In what organs do you find cardiac muscle?

The heart.The term cardiac (as in cardiology) means "related to the heart" and comes from the Greek καρδιά, kardia, for "heart."


Where would you expect to find numerous gap junctions in the muscular tissue?

You would expect to find numerous gap junctions in cardiac muscle tissue and certain types of smooth muscle tissue. In cardiac muscle, gap junctions facilitate the rapid propagation of electrical signals necessary for synchronized heart contractions. In smooth muscle, they enable coordinated contractions across muscle fibers, allowing for effective movement of substances through hollow organs. Gap junctions play a crucial role in cell-to-cell communication in these tissues.