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Muscle Types
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Cardiac
Smooth Skeletal |
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Cardiac
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Found only in the walls of the heart
It is involuntary Striated Can fatigue |
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Smooth
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Found in the walls of viscera (e.g. stomach, intestines, blood vessels
Unstriated It is not under conscious control |
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Skeletal
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Attached to bones, covers the skeleton
voluntary muscle Rapidly fatigues Striated |
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Skeletal
Isotonic contraction |
the type of contraction where the muscle may shorten
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Skeletal
Isometric contraction |
the type of contraction in which no external work is done, and no shortening occurs
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Skeletal
Eccentric contraction |
when a muscle under tension relaxes gradually. Important for normal gait.
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