Muscle Structure

smooth muscle tissue vs. dense regular connective tissue

• wavy pattern in dense regular connective tissue

• smooth muscle has no striations, nuclei is more noticeable

• fibers of dense regular connective tissue are less packed together

Source for Images:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Histology_of_smooth_muscles#/media/File:Smooth_muscle_-_histology.jpg 

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=dense+regular+tissue&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=image 

Cross section of skeletal muscle