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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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Muscular system Vocabulary
Muscular system • Provides movement for the body • Maintains posture • Generates heat • Stabilizes joints
Skeletal Muscle • Attached to bones • Contract to pull bones • Under voluntary control
Cardiac Muscle • In the walls of the heart • Involuntary control
Smooth Muscle • Found in hollow organs such as the stomach, intestines, and bladder • Involuntary control