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It's responsible for the beating of the heart and closing of valves in the veins of the legs.

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How would you use cardiac muscle in a sentence?

One of his cardiac muscles was badly damaged.


Give examples of three types of muscles?

Skeletal muscle: Found attached to bones and responsible for voluntary movement. Cardiac muscle: Found in the heart and responsible for pumping blood throughout the body. Smooth muscle: Found in the walls of internal organs and blood vessels, responsible for involuntary movements like peristalsis.


What cells make up the myocardium?

The myocardium is composed of cardiomyocytes, which are specialized muscle cells that form the heart muscle tissue. These cells are responsible for contraction of the heart and pumping blood throughout the body.


Which type of muscle is the heart made of?

cardiac


What is an example of a cardiac muscle?

An example of cardiac muscle is the myocardium, which is the muscle tissue of the heart. It is responsible for the contraction of the heart chambers to pump blood throughout the body. Cardiac muscle is striated and involuntary, meaning it contracts without conscious control.


What is responsible for conducting electrical impulses within the cardiac muscle?

Intercalculated Discs


Why is cardial muscel different from the normal one?

Normal skeleton muscle is responsible for all voluntary movement and The Cardiac muscle is the muscle of the heart.


What is the muscle tissue found in the heart?

Smooth cardiac muscle.


Cardiac muscle makes up the bulk of what tissue?

The cardiac muscle tissue us referred to as the heart or myocardium.


Muscle tissue that has intercalated disks?

cardiac muscle cells are joined by intercalated disks.


How do you describe the cardiac muscle?

Cardiac muscle is involuntary striated muscle. The cells of cardiac muscle have only one nucleus. The layer of the heart that contains cardiac muscle is called the myocardium.


Is the Cardiac muscle appears striated and is completely voluntary?

cardiac muscle is striated cardiac muscle is not voluntary