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Muscle is a very specialized tissue that has both the ability to contract and the ability to conduct electrical impulses. Based on functionally as either voluntary or involuntary and structurally as either striated or smooth, muscles can be classified into three types: smooth (smooth involuntary) muscle, skeletal (striated voluntary) muscle and cardiac (striated involuntary) muscle.
There are four major types of tissues: (1) Epithelial tissue, also called epithelium, covers body surfaces and organs and lines body cavities; (2) connective tissue binds and supports body parts; (3) muscular tissue contracts; and (4) nervous tissue responds to stimuli and transmits impulses from one body part to another (Table 4.1).