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Muscle Tissue

Skeletal Muscle

Cardiac Muscle

Smooth Muscle

Function

Structure

To contract and cause movement.

Maintaining skeletal stability

Preventing skeletal structure damage or deformation.

Contribute to the generation of heat

Epymisium

Fascicles

Perimysium

Endomysiun

Muscle fiber

Function

Only found in heart

Pump blood into the vessels of the circulatory system

Structure

Muscle fiber

One nucleus

Many mitochondria

Connection

Intercalated disc

Desmosomes

Also referred to as an involuntary muscle

Present in

The urinary bladder

Uterus

Stomach

Intestines

Organs that contain a lumen

The walls of large vascular tubes

Arteries

Veins

Eye