Types of muscles
Main features
Skeletal Muscles
- Fibers: striated, tubular and multi nucleated - Usually attached to skeleton
- Voluntary
Smooth Muscles
- Fibers are non-striated, spindle- shaped, and uninucleated.
- Involuntary
- Usually covering wall of internal organs
Cardiac muscle
- Fibers are striated, branched, and uninucleated
- Involuntary
- Only covering the walls of the heart
