When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Detrusor muscle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detrusor_muscle

    The detrusor muscle, also detrusor urinae muscle, muscularis propria of the urinary bladder and (less precise) muscularis propria, is smooth muscle found in the wall of the bladder. The detrusor muscle remains relaxed to allow the bladder to store urine , and contracts during urination to release urine.

  3. Muscular layer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_layer

    The muscular layer (muscular coat, muscular fibers, muscularis propria, muscularis externa) is a region of muscle in many organs in the vertebrate body, adjacent to the submucosa. It is responsible for gut movement such as peristalsis. The Latin, tunica muscularis, may also be used.

  4. Gastrointestinal wall - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrointestinal_wall

    The lamina propria, a layer of connective tissue within the mucosa. The muscularis mucosae, a thin layer of smooth muscle. The epithelium, the most exposed part of the mucosa, is a glandular epithelium with many goblet cells. Goblet cells secrete mucus, which lubricates the passage of food along and protects the intestinal wall from digestive ...

  5. Muscularis mucosae - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscularis_mucosae

    The muscularis mucosae (or lamina muscularis mucosae) is a thin layer of muscle of the gastrointestinal tract, located outside the lamina propria, and separating it from the submucosa. It is present in a continuous fashion from the esophagus to the upper rectum (the exact nomenclature of the rectum's muscle layers is still being debated).

  6. Pubovesical ligament - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubovesical_ligament

    The pubovesical ligament is the continuation of the detrusor muscle and the adventitia surrounding the urinary bladder. [1] [2] It connects the urinary bladder to the pubis and to the tendinous arch of the pelvic fascia. [1] It may also integrate fibres from the proximal side of the prostate in men. [2]

  7. Bladder - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bladder

    The bladder (from Old English blædre 'bladder, blister, pimple') is a hollow organ in humans and other vertebrates that stores urine from the kidneys. In placental mammals, urine enters the bladder via the ureters and exits via the urethra during urination. [1] [2] In humans, the bladder is a distensible organ that sits on the pelvic floor.

  8. Rectum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectum

    The microanatomy of the wall of the rectum is similar to the rest of the gastrointestinal tract; [9] namely, that it possesses a mucosa with a lining of a single layer of column-shaped cells with mucus-secreting goblet cells interspersed, resting on a lamina propria, with a layer of smooth muscle called muscularis mucosa.

  9. Internal anal sphincter - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_anal_sphincter

    The internal anal sphincter, IAS, or sphincter ani internus is a ring of smooth muscle that surrounds about 2.5–4.0 cm of the anal canal.It is about 5 mm thick, and is formed by an aggregation of the smooth (involuntary) circular muscle fibers of the rectum.