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Intercalated disc

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The individual muscle cells are joined through a junctional complex known as the intercalated disc and are not fused together into multinucleate structures as they are in skeletal muscle.

 


(kar-dee-ak)
A type of muscle that forms the contractile wall of the heart; its cells are joined by intercalated discs that relay each heartbeat.
cardiac output
The volume of blood pumped per minute by the left ventricle of the heart.

myoblast, satellite cell, sarcoplasm, sarcolemma, sarcoplasmic reticulum, T-tubule
cardiac muscle
myocardium, intercalated disc, nebulette
smooth muscle
calmodulin, vascular smooth muscle ...

See also: Action, Muscle, Tissue, Long, Cardiac muscle

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