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Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms

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Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms: Human Body Systems

Cardiac Muscles

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Cardiac Muscles

Cardiac muscle is a special type of muscle found only in the heart. It’s responsible for pumping blood throughout your body every moment of your life. Like skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle cells have striations striped patterns visible under a microscope, but unli...

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Your heart works nonstop—even when you’re fast asleep. It keeps working because of a special type of muscle called cardiac muscle.

It is found only in the walls of your heart. This muscle is involuntary, which means you can’t control it, and it works automatically, just like digestion, without you ever thinking about it.

Unlike smoot...

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