involuntary muscle

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involuntary muscle

Muscle that is not controlled by individual volition, including smooth muscle and cardiac muscle.

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Noun

involuntary 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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