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Anatomy & Physiology · Chapter 4
Muscle Tissue
Three muscle tissues, three jobs. They differ in whether they look
striped
, whether
you
control them, and their cell shape. Watch each one contract.
Skeletal muscle
Skeletal muscle
striated · voluntary
Compare the three
Skeletal
you move it
Cardiac
the heart
Smooth
organ walls
📷 Reference image
A real labeled figure to compare with the interactive above.
Muscle Tissue — OpenStax, CC BY 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)
