Parts of Nervous System. Nervous System: Nervous system is the chief controlling and coordinating system of the body. It controls and regulates all activities of the body, whether voluntary or involuntary, and adjusts the individual (organism) to the given surroundings.
1.Skeletal muscles are attached to the bones. Smooth muscles line up the visceral organs viz. Intestines,blood vessels,pupils etc (therefore also known as visceral muscles.) 2.Skeletal muscles perform voluntary actions. Smooth muscles are responsible for involuntary reflexes and actions.
The muscles are of three major types known as smooth, skeletal, and cardiac. Out of those three, skeletal muscles are mostly known, cardiac muscles are also known up to a fair extent, but the most common type of smooth are not well known. It would be interesting to explore the characteristics and differences between mostly known and mostly unknown types of muscles.