smooth muscle
noun
: muscle tissue that lacks cross striations, is made up of elongated spindle-shaped cells having a central nucleus, and is found especially in vertebrate hollow organs and structures (such as the digestive tract and bladder) as thin sheets performing functions not subject to direct voluntary control and in all or most of the musculature of invertebrates other than arthropods compare striated muscle
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Usually, when food enters your stomach, smooth muscle tissues in the gallbladder contract to push bile out of your gallbladder and into the small intestine, helping digest fat.
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Lindsay Curtis, Health, 1 Oct. 2024
When activated, these receptors relax the smooth muscles of the bladder.
—Matthew Wosnitzer, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2024
Her uterus was riddled with fibroids, benign tumors consisting of smooth muscle that were both inside and outside the lining of her uterus.
—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2024
These are symptoms linked to changes in blood vessels that supply blood as a result of contraction or relaxation of the smooth muscles that line the walls of the vessels.
—Joy Emeh, Health, 18 July 2024
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Lindsay Curtis, Health, 1 Oct. 2024
When activated, these receptors relax the smooth muscles of the bladder.
—Matthew Wosnitzer, Verywell Health, 23 Sep. 2024
Her uterus was riddled with fibroids, benign tumors consisting of smooth muscle that were both inside and outside the lining of her uterus.
—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2024
These are symptoms linked to changes in blood vessels that supply blood as a result of contraction or relaxation of the smooth muscles that line the walls of the vessels.
—Joy Emeh, Health, 18 July 2024
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“Smooth muscle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smooth%20muscle. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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