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What are blood vessel spasms stimulated by?
Cutting or breaking a blood vessel stimulates the smooth muscles in its wall to contract. This response
Can you contract your smooth and cardiac muscles on purpose?
Smooth Muscles can, but Cardiac Muscles can not.
What the organ that can relax contract and can move bones in the body?
smooth muscles
What happens to blood pressure when the smooth muscle of an arteriole contracts?
When the radius of the smooth muscle decreases the pressure increases. So the blood pressure becomes higher
Smooth muscles that produce goose pimples when they contract are the?
Arrector pili muscles
What muscle such as the heart muscle does its job without thinking about it?
Involuntary muscles contract subconsciously.
How is cardiac muscles similar to smooth muscles?
they both contract and relax to cause movement and both are uninucleated.
What controls the skeletal and smooth muscles by telling them to either contract or relax?
CNS
How would relaxing the smooth muscles in arteries affect blood pressure?
Blood pressure would decrease
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 do a blood vessels bladder and an airway have in common?
They are all smooth muscles that contract involuntarily.
What are considered smooth muscles in the body?
Smooth muscles are found in hollow parts of the body. For example they are found in the stomach, intestines, blood vessels, and the bladder. They can contract in all directions.
