Assertion: cardiac muscle | /r/HasProperty | a type of striated muscle
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text: This article states that cardiac muscle is a type of striated muscle, I am unsure as to whether this is the case as skeletal muscle is considered to be striated.
text: Rather than say whether cardiac muscle is or is not a 'type' of striated muscle, maybe we could just say "although cardiac muscle has clear striations, the term 'striated muscle' refers exclusively to skeletal muscle.
text: It is a type of striated muscles, and the altered segments of thick and thin protein fibres called myosin and actin respectively cause these striations.
text: As I understood it, cardiac muscle was a type of striated muscle - 'striated' refers to the presence of bands on the myofibrils in muscle cells, which skeletal and cardiac muscle possess, but smooth muscle does not.