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Definition: Involuntary Muscle |
Involuntary MuscleNoun1. 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). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Involuntary MuscleSynonym: smooth muscle (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Involuntary Muscle |
| English words defined with "involuntary muscle": urge incontinence. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "involuntary muscle": HIV Wasting Syndrome ♦ Muscle, Smooth, Vascular, muscular coat. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | They often develop involuntary muscle jerks called myoclonus, and they may go blind. (references) | |
In adductor spasmodic dysphonia, sudden involuntary muscle movements or spasms cause the vocal folds (or vocal cords) to slam together and stiffen. (references) | ||
Benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by involuntary muscle contractions and spasms of the eyelid muscles. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
involuntary muscle twitching | 15 |
involuntary muscle | 6 |
involuntary muscle spasms | 5 |
contraction involuntary muscle | 3 |
involuntary muscle spasm | 3 |
involuntary muscle twitch | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "involuntary muscle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 不隨意肌 . (various references) | ||||
Finnish | tahdosta riippumaton lihas. (various references) | ||||
French | muscle involontaire. (various references) | ||||
Greek | μυς απροαίρετος (smooth muscle). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | involuntaryay usclemay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-l-m-n-n-o-r-s-t-u-u-v-y" | |
-4 letters: intravenously, noncumulative, uncustomarily. | |
-5 letters: anticonsumer, calumniously, conventually, countervails, crenulations, cumulatively, meticulously, miraculously, multinuclear, neurotically, neurulations, sylviculture, voluntaryism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 76 6F 6C 75 6E 74 61 72 79      4D 75 73 63 6C 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01110110 01101111 01101100 01110101 01101110 01110100 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000 01001101 01110101 01110011 01100011 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n v o l u n t a r y   M u s c l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0076 006F 006C 0075 006E 0074 0061 0072 0079      004D 0075 0073 0063 006C 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43808881788780866784912478785697871 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kiinalainen, Chinois, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, φινλανδικόσ |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, ranskalainen, français, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , kreikkalainen, grec, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englantia, englantilainen, anglais, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ |
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