Smooth Muscle

Definition: Smooth Muscle

Smooth 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).

2. Muscle tissue that does not appear striated under the microscope; has the form of thin layers or sheets.

Specialty Definition: Smooth Muscle

Domain	Definition
Health	Muscle that performs automatic tasks, such as constricting blood vessels. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Smooth muscle

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Smooth muscle is is a type of muscle found in the walls of hollow organs such as blood vessels, the gastrointestinal tract, the bladder, and the uterus. Smooth muscle is not under voluntary control.

Smooth muscle cells are joined to each other through gap junctions, and a wave of contraction is propagated slowly through the muscle.

See also: muscle, skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Smooth muscle."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Smooth Muscle

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SMA	English	Smooth muscle antibody	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Smooth Muscle

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

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Crosswords: Smooth Muscle

English words defined with "smooth muscle": calcium blocker, calcium-channel blocker ♦ hernia, herniation ♦ leiomyoma, leiomyosarcoma ♦ Mecholyl, methacholine, musculus sphincter ani internus, musculus sphincter ductus choledochi, musculus sphincter ductus pancreatici, musculus sphincter pupillae, myometrium ♦ prostaglandin, pupillary sphincter. (references)

Specialty definitions using "smooth muscle": Allylamine, Amphetamines, Anaphylatoxins, Angiomyoma ♦ Bethanechol, Bombesin, Bronchial Hyperreactivity, Bronchial Spasm ♦ Caerulein, Calcium Channel Agonists, Calcium Channel Blockers, Calcium Channels, L-Type, Calpain, Complement 3, Complement 3a, Complement 5, Connective Tissue Cells, Cyclandelate ♦ Felodipine, Flavoxate, Foam Cells ♦ Glomerular Mesangium ♦ Histamine H2 Antagonists, Hypersensitivity, Immediate ♦ Isoxsuprine, Isradipine ♦ Juxtaglomerular Apparatus ♦ Kallikreins, Kassinin ♦ Lymphangiomyoma ♦ Methysergide, Milrinone, Mitochondria, Muscle, Muscarinic Agonists, Muscle Hypertonia, Muscle Neoplasms, Muscular Diseases, Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase ♦ Neurokinin A, Neurokinin K, Neuropeptide Y ♦ pericyte, Pericytes ♦ Quipazine ♦ Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-1, Receptors, Adrenergic, alpha-2, Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2, Receptors, Neurokinin-1, Receptors, Thrombin, Renin-Angiotensin System ♦ Smooth Muscle Tumor, Sphincterotomy, Transhepatic, Substance P ♦ Thrombospondins, Tunica Media ♦ Vasomotor System, Vasopressins. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Smooth Muscle

Domain	Title
Books	Airway Smooth Muscle in Health and Disease (reference) Calcium Antagonists: Mechanism of Action on Cardiac Muscle and Vascular Smooth Muscle (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine, 39) (reference) Prostaglandins and Control of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation (reference) Lam and Other Diseases Characterized by Smooth Muscle Proliferation (Lung Biology in Health and Disease, V. 131) (reference) Regulation of the Contractile Cycle in Smooth Muscle (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Journal Of Smooth Muscle Research (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Smooth Muscle

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		They relax smooth muscle and widen blood vessels. (references)
		Smooth muscle disorders such as amyloidosis and scleroderma. (references)
		The vocal folds are two bands of smooth muscle tissue that lie opposite each other. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expressions: Smooth Muscle

Expressions using "smooth muscle": smooth muscle cell ♦ Smooth Muscle Tumor. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Smooth 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.

Expression	Frequency per Day
smooth muscle	37
anti smooth muscle antibody	9
smooth muscle antibody	6
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Modern Translation: Smooth Muscle

Language		Translations for "smooth muscle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		tumor i den glatte muskulatur (smooth muscle tumor, smooth muscle tumour). (various references)

Dutch		gladde spier (non-striated muscle). (various references)

Finnish		sileä lihaskudos. (various references)

French		muscle lisse, muscle blanc, muscle � fibre lisse. (various references)

German		glatter Muskel (non-striated muscle). (various references)

Greek		μυς λείος, μυς απροαίρετος (involuntary muscle), λείος μυς (non-striated muscle). (various references)

Hungarian		sima izom (muscle of organic life). (various references)

Italian		muscolo liscio (non-striated muscle). (various references)

Pig Latin		oothsmay usclemay

Portuguese		músculo liso (non-striated muscle), músculo involuntário (non-striated muscle). (various references)

Spanish		músculo liso (non-striated muscle), músculo de contracción involuntaria (non-striated muscle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Smooth Muscle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-h-l-m-m-o-o-s-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: closeouts, colosseum.
	-4 letters: closeout, commutes, costumes, hommoses, lothsome, outcomes, outsoles, schmoose, selcouth, slouches, smooches, smoothes, smutches.
	-5 letters: chooses, chouses, closest, closets, clothes, coeloms, cohosts, commute, coolest, coolths, costume, customs, hocuses, hostels, housels, hustles, locusts, loosest, lotoses, lotuses, lushest, molests, molochs, momuses, mooches, mouches, mulches, muscles, mutches, ocelots, oscules, osmoles, outcome, outecho, outsole, schmoes.
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