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Smooth muscle Common

Smooth muscle has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart)

2

muscle tissue that does not appear striated under the microscope; has the form of thin layers or sheets

3

Involuntary muscle which is found within the intestines, throat, uterus, and blood vessel walls.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
muscle
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
myometrium musculus sphincter ani internus
Rhyming Words
cle icle secle macle cycle sicle socle uncle zocle circle sarcle boucle surcle guncle mascle oracle acicle icicle nuncle muscle
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