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Skeletal muscles allow you to move, and account for most of the muscles in your body. Smooth muscles are found throughout your body in organs such as your blood vessels, intestines and bladder. Cardiac muscles are found in your heart. Muscles can only pull by contracting. They are not able to push by expanding. Because of this, many Most of the muscles The largest of the muscles in your body are that operate your fingers arranged in pairs. One set of muscles Smooth muscles and cardiac are found in your forearm. muscle in your body muscles are “involuntary” is the “gluteus maximus” in extends a body part, such as an arm muscles. That is, they operate your buttocks. The smallest is or leg, while a second set of automatically without any the “stapedius” located muscles moves that same body conscious control. in your ear. part in the opposite direction. Most cells have only one nucleus, Can you find the hidden words? which is sort of a cell command- Search carefully because some Why do center. Skeletal muscle cells, words are backward or diagonal. biceps and triceps however, have several nuclei! get along so well? Why wouldn’t the CONTRACT NUCLEI FACE They’re attracted weightlifter listen to anyone? Muscle cells are some of the SKELETON HUMAN ARM to the opposite He was headstrong. longest cells in your body. Some can CARDIAC MAJOR PULL flex. be several centimeters in length. SMOOTH HEART BOB GROUPS PAIRS CELL What do Nearly all of MUSCLE BODY LEG Muscles you get when you the animals on our T O U C A N C O L O R S S cross a stomach muscle account for Contrary planet have some L C H A R C O L O O M M S to popular belief, with piece of metal? E A A I M P U T J H L O B about half Abs of steel. type of muscle. the weight of it takes about the same G R R R H P L A E S O O N number of muscles to A D P U T I M A P L D T R an adult human. smile as it does P I M A E N R U B Y E H S to frown. Can you help this bodybuilder P A I L I T O S S E E K C reach the sunscreen? N C C O B R O C L C Y E S G U L L G O S B A I L O O N U M B E R B F E L T E N There are more than 600 major muscles in the human body. There are about 20 groups of muscles in your face. These What do you get muscles allow us to produce when you cross a muscle with garlic? a wide variety of facial A strong odor. expressions. In addition to supporting our skeleton and allowing us to move about, muscles also help us communicate through speech, writing and art. 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