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Smooth muscles are...

Smooth muscles are

A

Involuntary, fusiform, non-striated

B

voluntary, multinucleate, cylindrical

C

involuntary, cylinderical, striated

D

voluntary, spindle-shaped, uninucleate

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Smooth muscles are fusiform or spindle shaped non-striated in structure and involuntary in function. Because of myofilaments are found in diffused or scattered from, regulated by autonomic nervous sytem.
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