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PHYSIOLOGICAL SPHINCTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A sphincter that is not recognizable at autopsy because its resting arrangement cannot be distinguished from adjacent tissue
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("physiological sphincter" is a kind of...):
anatomical sphincter; sphincter; sphincter muscle (a ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physiological sphincter"):
cardiac sphincter (the valve between the distal end of the esophagus and the stomach; the physiological sphincter at the esophagogastric junction)
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