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involuntary muscle

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Noun1.involuntary muscleinvoluntary muscle - 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)
smooth muscle
muscle, musculus - one of the contractile organs of the body
myometrium - the smooth muscle forming the wall of the uterus
musculus sphincter ani internus - an internal ring of smooth muscle formed by circular fibers of the rectum


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Spitz is a seminal and scholarly work organized into several major chapters: "Facilitated Communications"; "Involuntary Muscle Movements, Clever Hans, and Lady"; "Clever Hans and Facilitated Communication"; "Involuntary Muscle Movements in Other Phenomena"; "Scientific Studies of Involuntary Muscle Movements"; "Additional Psychological Mechanisms Relevant for Understanding Facilitator Behavior"; and "Confirming False Beliefs".
Nonconscious Movements by Stuart, Sharon / Reviewer's Bookwatch
She has spinal cord injuries in two places and painful involuntary muscle contractions.
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She needed extensive two-person assistance because of tremors with involuntary muscle movements and general motor weakness.
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