See twitch muscle, catch muscle: cardiac muscle (heart muscle) is a striated but involuntary muscle responsible for the pumping activity of the vertebrate heart.
surface are given off a number of membranous processes or trabeculæ, consisting, in man, of connective tissue, with a small admixture of plain muscle fibers; but in many of the lower animals composed almost entirely of involuntary muscle.
Smooth muscle or "involuntary muscle" is found within the walls of organs and structures such as the esophagus, stomach, intestines, bronchi, uterus, urethra, bladder, and blood vessels, and unlike skeletal muscle, ...
Maintaining autonomic functions such as heartbeat, breathing, control of involuntary muscle actions are performed by some of the parts of this system.
pertaining to a system of nerves and ganglia that regulate involuntary muscles, blood vessels and so forth, and connect with the central nervous system by the cranial and spinal nerves; movements in plants initiated by internal stimuli ...
A compound that reduces inflammation by increasing permeability of blood vessels and contracting various involuntary muscles such as those in airways.
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bronchitis An inflammation of bronchial linings that causes persistent cough, copious production of sputum, and involuntary muscle spasms that constrict airways.
Spinocerebellar ataxia, type 1 (SCA1; involuntary muscle movements, reßex disorders, explosive speech)
Thalassemias (THAL; anemias)
Tay-Sachs Disease (TS; fatal neurological disease of early childhood; seizures, paralysis) ...
 See also: Blood, Muscle, Organ, Voluntary muscle, Tissue
  
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