Goes down smooth
This type of muscle appear in the walls of your hollow organs, like your Bladder
What is smooth muscle?
The muscle fibers of the cardiac muscle have a striated, or _______, appearance
What is striped?
Cardiac muscle can only be found in this muscle.
What is the heart?
Cardiac and Smooth muscles have a mind of there own meaning you can not control them. This makes them what type of muscle.
What is involuntary?
Smooth muscles facilitate movement through the body with this type of alternating contraction.
What is a long, sustained, and rhythmic pattern?
This is the medical name for cardiace muscle.
What is myocardium?
These cells initiate the rhythmic contractions of the heart.
What are pacemaker cells?
These things are elongated in both smooth and skeletal muscles.
What are muscle fibers?
I'm the connective tissue between the cells of smooth muscle known as what?
What is endomysium?
This tough dense band of fibrous tissue connects muscles to bones.
What are tendons?
The sole purpose of cardiac muscle is to pump What type of blood where?
What is Oxygenated blood throughout the body?
These alternating thin and thick elements give cardio and skeletal muscles the ability to contract.
What are myofilaments?
Smooth muscle fibers have two shapes, fusiform and what other shape?
What is spindled?
There are three layers of connective tissue that wrap skeletal muscle. This includes the epimysium, endomysium and __________. Name the third layer.
What is perimysium?
Cardiac muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, branch out and are connected to these and provide a strong attachment between the fibers to withstand the constant stresses resulting from contraction of the cardiac muscle.
What are intercalated disks?
Cardiac muscle and Smooth muscle both have one nucleus making them what.
What is Uninucleate?
I am another name for smooth muscle.
What is visceral?
These wide sheets of connective tissue anchor a muscle to the part of the body that the muscle moves such as the abdominal muscles to the rib cage or pelvic bone.
What is the Aponeuroses.
During contraction, the internal chambers of the heart become smaller, forcing blood into the these blood vessels to carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to the rest of the body.
What are ateries?
Cardiac, smooth, and skeletal muscles all share this function.
What is regulate temperature or produce heat?