Set: Muscle Tissues

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Term Definition
Muscle Tissue Highly specialized to contract or shorten to produce movement. Because muscle cells are elongated to provide a long axis for contraction, they are called muscle fibers.
Skeletal Muscle Packed by connective tissue sheets into organs which are attached to the skeleton. These muscles are voluntarily controlled.
Cardiac Muscle Contracts in the heart and creates a pump that propels blood through the blood vessels. These muscles are involuntarily controlled.
Smooth Muscle A single nucleus and spindle shaped, that is found in the walls of hollow organs such as the stomach, bladder, uterus, and blood vessels. When this contracts its organ alternately becomes smaller or enlarges so that substances are propelled through the organ along a specific pathway.
Striations Long, Cylindrical and Multinucleate Shape.
Intercalated Disks Branching Cells that fit tightly together.
Visceral No Striations.

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Creator bookert43
Created October 14, 2007
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  1. Visceral → No Striations. - 8 misses
  2. Intercalated Disks → Branching Cells that fit tightly together. - 7 misses
  3. Striations → Long, Cylindrical and Multinucleate Shape. - 5 misses
  4. Muscle Tissue → Highly specialized to contract or shorten to produce movement. Because muscle cells are elongated to provide a long axis for contraction, they are called muscle fibers. - 1 miss
  5. Skeletal Muscle → Packed by connective tissue sheets into organs which are attached to the skeleton. These muscles are voluntarily controlled. - 1 miss
  6. Cardiac Muscle → Contracts in the heart and creates a pump that propels blood through the blood vessels. These muscles are involuntarily controlled. - 1 miss