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INVOLUNTARY MUSCLE
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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:
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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