unstriated muscle

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• unstriated muscle — n SMOOTH MUSCLE * * * smooth m …   Medical dictionary

• Muscle — is the tissue of the body which primarily functions as a source of power. There are three types of muscle in the body. Muscle which is responsible for moving extremities and external areas of the body is called "skeletal muscle." Heart… …   Medical dictionary

• muscle — fish have three types of muscles, cardiac (only in the heart), smooth (in the viscera, blood vessels or mixed with other tissues), and striated or skeletal (arranged to move the bones). Cardiac muscle has striations, branching fibres and nuclei… …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• unstriated — Without striations; not striped; denoting the structure of the smooth or involuntary muscles. * * * un·stri·at·ed .ən strī .āt əd adj not striated: not marked by striae * * * un·stri·at·ed (ən striґāt əd) having no striations or… …   Medical dictionary

• Smooth muscle — One of the three types of muscle tissue in the body (skeletal, smooth, cardiac). Generally forms the supporting tissue of blood vessels and hollow internal organs such as the stomach, intestine, and bladder. So named because of the absence of… …   Medical dictionary

• Albert von Kölliker — Infobox Scientist name = Rudolph Albert von Kölliker image size = 170px birth date = birth date|1817|7|6|mf=y birth place = Zurich, Switzerland death date = death date and age|1905|11|2|1817|7|6|mf=y death place = Würzburg, Germany residence =… …   Wikipedia

• un|stri|at|ed — «uhn STRY ay tihd», adjective. not striated; nonstriated: »unstriated muscle …   Useful english dictionary

• smoothmuscle — smooth muscle n. Muscle tissue that contracts without conscious control, having the form of thin layers or sheets made up of spindle shaped, unstriated cells with single nuclei and found in the walls of the internal organs, such as the stomach,… …   Universalium

• contractile fiber cells — the spindle shaped and nucleated cells which, collected into bundles, make up unstriated or smooth muscle …   Medical dictionary