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What is smooth muscle?

What is smooth muscle? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) Involuntary muscle which is found within the intestines, throat, uterus, and blood vessel walls.
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Some veins do not possess smooth muscle fibers and, as a result, do not have a tunica media.
The efflux of potassium ions hyperpolarizes the cell membrane, resulting in vascular smooth muscle relaxation.
Branched smooth muscle fibers can be found in the nipple of the mammary glands.
The areola contains softer and darker skin tissue which surrounds the nipple and which also contains smooth muscle fibers.
External injury to the alveolar wall may be the counterpart of arteriolar smooth muscle injury.
A microvillous tegument was appreciated overlying a thin layer of smooth muscle and a single row of stromal cells.

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