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Definition: Sphincter |
SphincterNoun1. A ring of muscle that contracts to close an opening. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sphincter" was first used: 1578. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A ringlike band of muscle fibres that constricts a passage or closes a natural orifice; called also musculus sphincter. (references) |
Medicine | Any annular muscle closing an orifice. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
From late Latin sphincter, from Greek sphinkter, band, contractile muscle, from sphingein, to bind tight.
A sphincter is a ring-like muscle that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice and that relaxes as required by normal physiological functioning.
Some examples of sphincters include:
- Anus
- Cardia
- Urethral sphincter
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sphincter."
Synonyms: SphincterSynonyms: anatomical sphincter (n), sphincter muscle (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Uh, Sphincter Mucus Layer Ringworm, roger (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) Remove head from sphincter, then drive (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) Something about a shrinking sphincter. (D3: The Mighty Ducks; writing credit: Steven Brill; Kenneth Johnson) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Electrophysiologic sphincter testing (EMG). (references) | |
Figure 1.--Front view of bladder and sphincter muscles. (references) | ||
Anorectal manometry evaluates anal sphincter muscle function. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Sphincter" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sphincter" is used about 346 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (comparative) | 100% | 346 | 15,378 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sphincter": anal sphincter ♦ anatomical sphincter ♦ bladder sphincter ♦ cardiac sphincter ♦ Lower Esophageal Sphincter ♦ musculus sphincter ani ♦ musculus sphincter ani externus ♦ musculus sphincter ani internus ♦ musculus sphincter ductus choledochi ♦ musculus sphincter ductus pancreatici ♦ musculus sphincter pupillae ♦ musculus sphincter pylori ♦ musculus sphincter urethrae ♦ musculus sphincter vesicae ♦ Oddi's Sphincter ♦ physiological sphincter ♦ pupillary sphincter ♦ Pyloric Sphincter ♦ sphincter ani ♦ sphincter muscle ♦ Sphincter of Oddi ♦ urethral sphincter. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "sphincter": sphincter-like. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sphincter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | muskul unazor, muskul shtrëngues. (various references) | |
Arabic | العاصرة العضلة العاصرة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сфинктер, пръстеновиден мускул. (various references) | |
Chinese | 括约肌. (various references) | |
Czech | svìraè (constrictor). (various references) | |
Danish | sphincter. (various references) | |
Dutch | sphincter. (various references) | |
Finnish | ulosteenpidätyskyvyttömyys (anal sphincter incontinence, faecal incontinence, fecal incontinence, feces incontinence, rectal incontinence), incontinentia alvi (anal sphincter incontinence, faecal incontinence, fecal incontinence, feces incontinence, rectal incontinence). (various references) | |
French | sphincter. (various references) | |
German | Schließmuskel (constrictor), Sphinkter. (various references) | |
Greek | σφιγκτήρας μυς, σφιγκτήρ (chuck, clamp, vice, vise). (various references) | |
Hungarian | záróizom (constrictor, sphincteral, sphincterial). (various references) | |
Italian | sfintere. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 括約筋 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | かつやくき". (various references) | |
Korean | 괄약근. (various references) | |
Manx | dooneyder (closer, fastener, shutter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inctersphay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esfíncter. (various references) | |
Russian | сфинктер. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sfinkter, petlja (eye, hoop, loop, noose, runner, stitch). (various references) | |
Spanish | esfínter. (various references) | |
Swedish | slutmuskel, sfinkter. (various references) | |
Turkish | sfinkter (sphincter muscle), büzgen kas (sphincter muscle), büzücü kas (sphincter muscle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сфінктер. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | sphinkter. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | musculus sphincter. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | sphincter. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sphincter": sphincteric, sphincters. (additional references) | |
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"Sphincter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Schnitter, Shankster, shincter, shinter, shpincter, sohincter, sphinct, sphinctor, sphinkter, sphinxter, sphyncter, spincter, spinkter. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-n-p-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: christen, citherns, cithrens, pinchers, pinscher, pitchers, snitcher. | |
-2 letters: ceriphs, ciphers, cistern, cithern, cithers, cithren, cretins, crispen, ethnics, hinters, hipster, incepts, inspect, nephric, pectins, phrenic, pincers, pincher, pinches, pitcher, pitches, princes, pschent, pterins, richens, richest, sphenic, spheric, sthenic, triceps. | |
-3 letters: ceriph, cherts, chines, chints, chirps, cipher, citers, cither, cretin, cripes, enrich, esprit, estrin, ethics. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-n-p-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: nephrotics, sphincters. | |
+2 letters: pentarchies, sphincteric. | |
+3 letters: chiropterans, hypersthenic, interpsychic, phenocrystic, pyrotechnics, pyrotechnist, stenographic, stepchildren, stereophonic. | |
+4 letters: chemisorption, containership, copartnership, decipherments, encipherments, inspectorship, lycanthropies, nephrectomies, parasynthetic, picturephones, preanesthetic, precentorship, pyrotechnists, terpsichorean, trichopterans. | |
+5 letters: actinomorphies, anticensorship, apprenticeship, asthenospheric, chemisorptions, chromoproteins, cinematographs, containerships, controllership, copartnerships, dryopithecines, hyperfunctions, hypersecretion, inspectorships, magnetospheric, nephrectomizes, photoreactions, phycoerythrins, preanesthetics, precentorships, psychoneurotic, scintigraphies, spinthariscope, streptothricin. | |
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