- Â Â Â muscular coat of small intestine
- tunica muscularis intestini tenuis.
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circular layer of muscular coat of small intestine — stratum circulare tunicae muscularis intestini tenuis … Medical dictionary
longitudinal layer of muscular coat of small intestine — stratum longitudinale tunicae muscularis intestini tenuis … Medical dictionary
muscular coat — n an outer layer of smooth muscle surrounding a hollow or tubular organ (as the bladder, esophagus, large intestine, small intestine, stomach, ureter, uterus, and vagina) that often consists of an inner layer of circular fibers serving to narrow… … Medical dictionary
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layer — A sheet of one substance lying on another and distinguished from it by a difference in texture or color or by not being continuous with it. SEE ALSO: stratum, lamina. SYN: panniculus. ameloblastic l. the internal l. of the enamel organ. SYN: enam … Medical dictionary
stratum circulare tunicae muscularis intestini tenuis — [TA] circular layer of muscular coat of small intestine: the inner layer of circularly coursing fibers in the muscular coat (tunica muscularis) of the small intestine … Medical dictionary
stratum longitudinale tunicae muscularis intestini tenuis — [TA] longitudinal layer of muscular coat of small intestine: the outer layer of the muscular coat (tunica muscularis) of the small intestine, consisting of longitudinally coursing fibers … Medical dictionary
tunica — SYN: tunic. [L. a coat] t. adventitia SYN: adventitia. t. albuginea a dense white collagenous tunic surrounding a structure. t. albuginea of corpora cavernosa [TA] a strong … Medical dictionary
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