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... glandular epithelium. (b) The cardiac muscle. (c) Non-striated visceral muscles (intestinal) (d) Certain striated visceral muscles (rectal). (e) The arrectores pilorum. (f) The non- ...

... Muscle.—The general importance of the activity of visceral (non-striated) muscle is appreciated when one remem- bers that the ... not to tetanus. Tonus, whether it occurs in visceral muscles of mammals or in similar non-striated muscles of other animals, is a very economical ...

... spinal nerve fibres (digitalis). Quick acting but involuntary. Visceral smooth, or non-striated muscle.—This form of contractile tissue, while quite widespread, ...

... of, 31 physical properties of, 33 smooth, 40 striated, 31 tissue, 31 pharmacodynamics of, 43 visceral, 40 Muscles, energy liberated in, 35 fatigue, 36 involuntary, 40 ...

... afferent—exteroceptive and proprioceptive• d. Somatic efferent--supply striated muscle# (o) Autonomic system (visceral efferent)# That which supplies smooth muscles, e#g* ...

... quickly after a short latent period. All non-striated muscles contract slowly after a long latent period. The visceral or involuntary muscles of some animals are striated. ...

... of the sympathetic nervous sytem. Except for the striated cardiac muscle in the wall of the heart, the visceral muscles are smooth. Their commonest arrangement is in ...

... 364 EIWEISSMILCH the nerve end-organs in the striated skeletal mus- cles. visceral e., one of the end-organs in in- voluntary muscle. effemination (ef-fem-in-a'shun). The condition ...

... voluntary muscle tissue and skeletal muscle. 2. Non-striated or plain muscle, known also as in- voluntary and visceral muscle tissue. 3. Cardiac muscle. The reasons for ...

... of two varieties: (1) somatic effectors, and (2) visceral effectors. The Somatic Effectors. These effectors consist of the motor end-organs and the striated skeletal muscles. These organs are made up of an end- ...