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INVOLUNTARY MUSCLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Synonyms:

involuntary muscle; smooth muscle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("involuntary muscle" is a kind of...):

muscle; musculus (one of the contractile organs of the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "involuntary muscle"):

myometrium (the smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus)

musculus sphincter ani internus (an internal ring of smooth muscle formed by circular fibers of the rectum)

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