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The muscular system is the anatomical system of a species that allows it to move. The muscular system in vertebrates is controlled through the nervous system, although some muscles (such as the card...
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The main role of the muscular system is to provide movement. Muscles work in pairs to move limbs and provide the organism with mobility. Muscles also control the movement of materials through some organs, such as the stomach and intestine, and the heart and circulatory system.
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They make up your internal organs, such as your stomach, throat, small intestine, and all the others, except your heart. ... The skeletal muscles are the only voluntary muscles of your body, and make up what we call the muscular system. They are all the muscles that move you bones and show external movement.
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The skeletal system is great for supporting and protecting the body, but it can't move itself. For movement, the body needs the muscular system. The organs of the muscular system, of course, are the muscles. The muscles move the bones, pump the blood, squeeze food through the body, and perform many other jobs.
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The structures/organs involved are the skeletal system, the G.I. track, and the heart. All are a different type of muscle though. The skeletal system is skeletal muscles. The G.I. track is smooth muscles and the heart is cardiac muscles. Th...
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The major organ of the Muscular System are the muscles. The other organs are the tendons.
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Musculo-Skeletal System - Organ; ... The adult human skeleton is mainly composed of bones, which are themselves organs, composed of several different tissue types. In order to facilitate the classification of the body’s 206 named bones, the human skeleton is divided into the axial and appendicular skeletons.
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The musculo-skeletal system is composed of muscles, bones, cartilages, ligaments and tendons. Combined, these components fulfill many functions, including movement, posture maintenance, support and protection of internal organs.
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located in walls of "hollow organs" s.a. blood vessels, stomach, bladder, other internal organs; 'involuntary' movement s.a. peritalsis); 3. Cardiac; (striated w/ multiple nuclei/cell; cells branched, connected end-to-end by junctions (fused cell membranes) that allow electrical current flow; ... II. Muscular System...
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