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The structure of the muscular tissue varies according to its function, so that we distinguish between the striated and the unstriated or smooth muscles.

From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Dechmann, Louis

We may class muscles as striated or voluntary and unstriated or involuntary.

From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.

Sheet 7 represents the simpler kind of muscular tissue, unstriated muscle, in which the cell character is still fairly obvious.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

It would seem that unstriated muscle contracts slowly, and we find it especially among the viscera; in the intestine for instance, where it controls that "peristaltic" movement which pushes the food forward.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The proper distribution of blood to the various organs of the body is regulated by the vasomotor system acting on the small arteries which contain considerable unstriated muscle.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall