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Definition of Involuntary muscle
1. Noun. 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).
Generic synonyms: Muscle, Musculus
Specialized synonyms: Myometrium, Musculus Sphincter Ani Internus
Definition of Involuntary muscle
1. Noun. (muscle) Muscle that is not controlled by individual volition; cardiac muscle and smooth muscle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Involuntary Muscle
Literary usage of Involuntary muscle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"CHAPTER XIII COMPARISON OF VOLUNTARY AND involuntary muscle THE main difference
between voluntary and involuntary muscle is the difference expressed in ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"It is a striped involuntary muscle. Muscle-tissue, jike protoplasm, is strongly
contractile, but unlike ordinary protoplasm, which can contract in all ..."
3. The Physiology of the Circulation in Plants, in the Lower Animals, and in by James Bell Pettigrew (1874)
"involuntary muscle.—The fibres of the involuntary muscles are non-striated or
unstriped, ie they possess no transverse markings. They consist of elongated ..."
4. The Physiology of the Circulation in Plants, in the Lower Animals, and in by James Bell Pettigrew (1874)
"involuntary muscle.—The fibres of the involuntary muscles are non-striated or
unstriped, ie they possess no transverse markings. They consist of elongated ..."
5. Experimental Physiology by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer (1912)
"CHAPTER XIV involuntary muscle Stomach or bladder of frog. ... involuntary muscle
does not show superposition nor tetanus, in this respect resembling the ..."
6. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1880)
"(3) the striated involuntary muscle of the heart. ... striated muscles of the
general voluntary system; and Structure of unstriped involuntary muscle. ..."
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