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What are cardiac muscles?
These muscles are only found in the heart.
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What are voluntary muscles?
This means that these muscles can be controlled by a person.
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What are smooth muscles?
These muscles line organs and blood vessels.
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What is the muscular system?
This system makes up at least a third of your body's weight.
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What is the gluteus maximus?
This posterior muscle is the largest in the body.
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What is striated?
This is a characteristic that makes a cardiac muscle look striped when viewed through a microscope.
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What are the skeletal muscles?
This body structure is composed of muscle fibers, protective tissues, blood vessels and nerves and creates movement by pulling a bone.
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What are involuntary muscles?
It means that these muscles can't be controlled by a person.
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What are the 3 different types of muscles?
Skeletal, smooth and cardiac
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What are ears?
These structures, which are located laterally in the superior area, are the site of the smallest muscles in the body.
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What do cardiac and smooth muscles have in common?
They both only have one nucleus.
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What is the cerebrum?
The area of the brain that controls voluntary muscles.
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What is the nucleus?
The control part of the cell that is limited to one for every smooth muscle fiber.
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What is Muscular Dystrophy?
This is a group of muscular diseases that causes progressive muscular weakness.
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What is the mouth?
This structure which is medial and cranial in the anterior portion of the body uses the body's strongest muscle.
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What is the medulla?
The area of the brain that controls involuntary muscles.
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What is a tendon?
Protective connective tissues that extend past muscle fibers and turn into this tissue that connects a muscle to a bone.
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What is the medulla?
Like cardiac muscles, this is where smooth muscles are controlled.
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What are triceps?
This part of the name of an arm muscle means that it is 3-headed or has 3 points of origin.
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What is shape?
The terms deltoid, rhomboid, trapezius and teres are all parts of muscle names and refer to this one descriptive characteristic.
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