sphincter's Usage Examples:

known respectively as the upper esophageal sphincter and the lower esophageal sphincter.

These sphincters act to close the esophagus when food is not.

Two sphincters keep the contents of the stomach contained; the lower oesophageal sphincter (found in the cardiac region), at.

The external urethral sphincter is a striated muscle that allows voluntary control over urination.

The internal sphincter, formed by the involuntary.

urethral sphincter and the internal urethral sphincter.

The external urethral sphincter originates.

A sphincter is a circular muscle that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice and which relaxes as required by normal physiological.

Two sphincters control the exit of feces from the body during an act of defecation, which.

The external anal sphincter (or sphincter ani externus ) is a flat plane of skeletal muscle fibers, elliptical in shape and intimately adherent to the.

Oddi: functional biliary sphincter of Oddi and functional pancreatic sphincter of Oddi disorder.

The sphincter of Oddi is a sphincter muscle, a circular band.

The internal anal sphincter, IAS, (or sphincter ani internus) is a ring of smooth muscle that surrounds about 2.

bowel, it functions to regulate release of excrement by two muscular sphincter complexes.

The orifice is surrounded by a sphincter, a band of muscle, called the pyloric sphincter.

Bauhin's valve, ileocecal eminence, valve of Varolius or colic valve) is a sphincter muscle valve that separates the small intestine and the large intestine.

The iris sphincter muscle (pupillary sphincter, pupillary constrictor, circular muscle of iris, circular fibers) is a muscle in the part of the eye called.

biliary outlet into the duodenum just as increased tonus of that outlet sphincter of Oddi, the backed-up bile can cause pancreatic injury with abdominal.

Fissure depth may be superficial or sometimes down to the underlying sphincter muscle.

anal sphincter muscle for the treatment of chronic anal fissure.

The internal anal sphincter is one of two muscles that comprise the anal sphincter which.

The sphincter of Oddi (also hepatopancreatic sphincter or Glisson's sphincter), abbreviated as SO, is a muscular valve that in some animals, including.

The external sphincter muscle of female urethra is a muscle which controls urination in females.

Stress incontinence due "a poorly functioning urethral sphincter muscle (intrinsic sphincter deficiency) or to hypermobility of the bladder neck or urethra".

The external sphincter muscle of male urethra, also sphincter urethrae membranaceae, sphincter urethrae externus, surrounds the whole length of the membranous.

Synonyms:

muscle; physiological sphincter; anatomical sphincter; pyloric sphincter; musculus sphincter pylori; musculus sphincter pupillae; pupillary sphincter; musculus sphincter urethrae; musculus; musculus sphincter ani; anal sphincter; bladder sphincter; sphincter muscle; pyloric valve; musculus sphincter ductus choledochi; urethral sphincter; musculus sphincter ductus pancreatici; sphincter ani; musculus sphincter vesicae;