| smooth muscle |
A type of involuntary muscle.
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| smooth muscle |
All airways have bronchial smooth muscles in their walls. These muscles are classed as 'smooth' muscle. This means they are not under voluntary control, like the muscles of our legs and arms, but instead respond to circulating hormones and compounds released locally by damaged or inflamed tissue. Many drugs will cause changes in smooth muscle without any effects on our voluntary muscles. ...
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| smooth muscle |
Sometimes called involuntary muscle. A type of muscle found many places in the body, including the walls of the airways. (It is called smooth muscle simply because of how it looks under a microscope, to distinguish it from striated muscle, which is what makes up the heart as well as voluntary (skeletal) muscle.)
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| smooth b. |
one characterized by smooth, glossy colonies on solid media. See smooth-rough variation, under variation.
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| smooth c. |
c. laeve.
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