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Cardiac Muscle Cell Structure Striated Cylindrical Short Branching

Front Cardiac muscle
Back Cell structure: striated, cylindrical, short, branching, mononucleated, and electrically coupled

Function: constrict heart to pump blood through chambers

Type of contraction: rapid, continuous, spreading

Control: involuntary with inherent rhythm

Innervation: ANS (pre-neuron in CNS and post-neuron in autonomic ganglia of PNS)

Tags: muscles, and, bones

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