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What are the examples of cardiac muscles?

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Dr. Raghuraman Vidhun
Cardiology 16 years experience
Heart: Cardiac muscles are special. They are unlike skeletal muscle (muscle in rest of the body) or smooth muscle that lines the walls of blood vessels. So to answer your question - example of cardiac muscle would be the heart.
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