Involuntary Muscle

  

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Involuntary Muscle

Definition: Involuntary Muscle

Involuntary Muscle

Noun

1. 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 Muscle

Synonym: smooth muscle (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Involuntary Muscle

English words defined with "involuntary muscle": urge incontinence. (references)
Specialty definitions using "involuntary muscle": HIV Wasting SyndromeMuscle, Smooth, Vascular, muscular coat. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Involuntary Muscle

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Involuntary Muscle

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Involuntary Muscle

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Involuntary Muscle

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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Alternative Orthography: Involuntary Muscle


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)

    

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)

&#73 &#110 &#118 &#111 &#108 &#117 &#110 &#116 &#97 &#114 &#121 &#32 &#77 &#117 &#115 &#99 &#108 &#101

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

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Involuntary Muscle"

LanguageCoverageLanguage 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
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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