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Anatomy & Physiology Ch. 8 & 9
Question | Answer |
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The type of muscle found in the walls of the digestive tract | smooth muscle |
Heart muscle is also known as | cardiac muscle |
The most abundant type of muscle in the human body is a striated muscle, also known as | skeletal muscle |
Muscles that work against each other are said to be | antagonistic |
Smooth muscle is so-named because it contains no | striations |
The muscle cells between some smooth muscles are linked together by junctions known as | gap junctions |
Where skeletal muscles are voluntary muscles, the smooth muscles are | involuntary |
Single-unit smooth muscle cells are interconnected by | gap junctions |
The ends of cardiac muscle cells are connected to one another by gap junctions in | intercalated disks |
Cardiac muscle is similar to smooth muscle because it is not under | voluntary control |