The muscular layer (muscular coat, muscular fibers, muscularis propria, muscularis externa) is a region of muscle in many organs in the vertebrate body, adjacent to the submucosa. It is responsible for gut movement such as peristalsis. The Latin, tunica muscularis, may also be used.
The muscularlayer (muscular coat, muscular fibers, muscularis propria, muscularis externa) is a region of muscle in many organs in the vertebrate body...
muscularis externa. The muscularlayer consists of an inner circular layer and a longitudinal outer layer. The circular layer prevents food from traveling...
four layers of specialised tissue. From the inner cavity of the gut (the lumen) outwards, these are the mucosa, the submucosa, the muscularlayer and the...
colon, descending colon and the rectum, the muscularlayer is instead bounded by adventitia. The muscularlayer of the duodenum is bounded by both tissue...
the muscularlayer, and which indicate adenomyomatosis. The muscularlayer is surrounded by a layer of connective and fat tissue. The outer layer of the...
in this layer interior to the oblique muscle layer. Outside of the submucosa lies the muscularlayer. It consists of three layers of muscular fibres,...
called cilia, which together with peristaltic contractions from the muscularlayer, move the fertilized egg (zygote) along the tube. On its journey to...
network of nerve cells that is part of the enteric nervous system. The muscularlayer of the esophagus has two types of muscle. The upper third of the esophagus...
and other animals, the vagina (pl.: vaginas or vaginae) is the elastic, muscular reproductive organ of the female genital tract. In humans, it extends from...
Latin names translate to "the mucosa's own special layer" (lamina propria mucosae) and "muscularlayer of the mucosa" (lamina muscularis mucosae). The muscularis...
membrane) and joins it to the muscularlayer, the bulk of overlying smooth muscle (fibers running circularly within layer of longitudinal muscle). The...
Calcification forms among vascular smooth muscle cells of the surrounding muscularlayer, specifically in the muscle cells adjacent to atheromas and on the surface...
junctional layer appears to function like a circular muscle layer, capable of peristaltic and anti-peristaltic activity, equivalent to the muscularlayer of the...
or part of the placenta attaches abnormally to the myometrium (the muscularlayer of the uterine wall). Three grades of abnormal placental attachment...
arches within the mesentery known as arterial arcades, which may be several layers deep. Straight blood vessels known as vasa recta travel from the arcades...
fold called Hartmann's pouch, where gallstones commonly get stuck. The muscularlayer of the body is of smooth muscle tissue that helps the gallbladder contract...
does not occur in the rectum as the tenia coli become a continuous muscularlayer. Diverticulosis can then become diverticulitis if the patient develops...
esophagus. There are two muscularlayers of the pharynx: the outer circular layer and the inner longitudinal layer. The outer circular layer includes: Superior...
surface of internal organs. It consists of one or more layers of epithelial cells overlying a layer of loose connective tissue. It is mostly of endodermal...
lining of a single layer of column-shaped cells with mucous-secreting goblet cells interspersed, resting on a lamina propria, with a layer of smooth muscle...
The lamina propria is a thin layer of connective tissue that forms part of the moist linings known as mucous membranes or mucosae, which line various...
the urethra. The urethra consists of three coats: muscular, erectile, and mucous, the muscularlayer being a continuation of that of the bladder. Somatic...
thin layer of tissue in the walls of various organs. It is a layer of connective tissue (usually of the areolar type) between the muscularlayer (muscularis...
to a degree—can regulate their inner diameter by contraction of the muscularlayer. This changes the blood flow to downstream organs, and is determined...
anus are surrounded by the internal and external anal sphincters, two muscular rings which control defecation.: 397 The anus is surrounded in its length...
Serosa is entirely different from the adventitia, a connective tissue layer which binds together structures rather than reducing friction between them...
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