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Understanding the Muscular System: Functions and Types

Explore the muscular system's roles in movement, posture maintenance, heat generation, and joint stabilization. Learn about skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle types and their functions in the body. Understand how muscles work under voluntary and involuntary control.

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Understanding the Muscular System: Functions and Types

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  1. Muscular system Vocabulary

  2. Muscular system • Provides movement for the body • Maintains posture • Generates heat • Stabilizes joints

  3. Skeletal Muscle • Attached to bones • Contract to pull bones • Under voluntary control

  4. Cardiac Muscle • In the walls of the heart • Involuntary control

  5. Smooth Muscle • Found in hollow organs such as the stomach, intestines, and bladder • Involuntary control

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