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The heart is made up of heart muscle known as Cardiac muscle, or myocardium This contracts almost 70 times a minute and pumps about 5 liters of blood each minute.

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What muscle fibers make up the heart?

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What muscles are The only muscles in the heart and makes up the atria and ventricles?

Cardiac Muscle or myocardium are the muscle that make up the heart that contract and relax to pump blood.


What are the organs for the muscular system?

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What muscles are there?

There are three basic types of muscle: smooth, skeletal, and cardiac. Smooth muscles are part of organs like the intestines, skeletal muscles are connected to bones, and cardiac muscles makes up most of the heart.


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Cardiac muscles build up the heart and their contraction and relaxation make heart a pump for circulation of blood.


What types of muscles do you have?

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What made up the heart?

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Is the heart muscles made up of mostly cardiac muscles?

Almost entirely.


What are the muscles called that cannot be controlled?

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What is the function of a cardiac cell?

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