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Understanding Muscle Types and Functions

The muscular system consists of over 650 muscles that generate both voluntary and involuntary movement. There are three main types of muscles: cardiac muscles that involuntarily contract the heart, striated or skeletal muscles that are attached to bone and respond to voluntary control, and smooth muscles that make up internal organs and operate involuntarily. Muscles come in different shapes adapted to their function, including fusiform, flat, orbicular, and fan-shaped muscles that power movements like breathing, eye blinking, and limb movement.

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Understanding Muscle Types and Functions

The muscular system consists of over 650 muscles that generate both voluntary and involuntary movement. There are three main types of muscles: cardiac muscles that involuntarily contract the heart, striated or skeletal muscles that are attached to bone and respond to voluntary control, and smooth muscles that make up internal organs and operate involuntarily. Muscles come in different shapes adapted to their function, including fusiform, flat, orbicular, and fan-shaped muscles that power movements like breathing, eye blinking, and limb movement.

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TYPES OF MUSCLES

MUSCULAR SYSTEM
FUNCTIONS
Cardiac muscles: they are the muscles that
make up the heart, their contraction and
Locomotion
distention is involuntary and continuous
WHAT IS? Position
striated muscles: also called skeletal Movement of the
muscles, are attached to bone, respond to The muscular system is the set of more internal organs
voluntary control, such as the eyeball than 650 muscles of the body, whose Stability
muscle. main function is to generate Information
movement, whether voluntary or Protection.
smooth muscles: they are visceral or involuntary, skeletal and visceral Heat
involuntary, they respond to the muscles, respectively.
vegetative system. make up the S.
excretory, reproductive, etc.

TYPES OF MOVEMENT
MUSCLE SHAPE
Volunteers. Those that we carry out
Circulars. Ring-shaped, they are responsible Fusiform. Spindle-shaped muscles, large
with full awareness, such as moving
for opening and closing ducts, such as the in the center and thin at the ends.
our limbs.
opening of the anus. Involuntary. Those alien to our
Flat and wide. Like the abdominals and desire but that somehow make
Orbicularis. Similar to the fusiform ones, but those of the rib cage that allow themselves noticed, like the visceral
with a hole in the center, which allows parts breathing. ones.
such as the eyes or mouth to open and close. freelancers Those that do not
Fanoids. Fan-shaped, like the pectorals. depend on our will and operate
according to a totally independent
program, such as cardiac ones.

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