Preferred Name | smooth muscle tissue | |
Synonyms |
visceral muscle tissue visceral muscle textus muscularis levis; textus muscularis nonstriatus smooth muscle textus muscularis nonstriatus involuntary muscle non-striated muscle |
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Definitions |
Muscle tissue which is unstriated, composed primarily of smooth muscle fibers surrounded by a reticulum of collagen and elastic fibers. Smooth muscle differs from striated muscle in the much higher actin/myosin ratio, the absence of conspicuous sarcomeres and the ability to contract to a much smaller fraction of its resting length[GO]. |
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ID |
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0001135 |
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composed primarily of | ||
database_cross_reference |
NCIT:C12437 MIAA:0000303 AAO:0010244 EMAPA:32717 BTO:0001260 AEO:0000141 EFO:0000889 ZFA:0005274 Wikipedia:Smooth_muscle_tissue VHOG:0001246 XAO:0000175 MESH:D009130 TAO:0005274 CALOHA:TS-0943 WBbt:0005781 EHDAA2:0003141 galen:SmoothMuscle MAT:0000303 galen:SmoothMuscleTissue EV:0100378 FMA:14070 GAID:167 MA:0000166 |
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definition |
Muscle tissue which is unstriated, composed primarily of smooth muscle fibers surrounded by a reticulum of collagen and elastic fibers. Smooth muscle differs from striated muscle in the much higher actin/myosin ratio, the absence of conspicuous sarcomeres and the ability to contract to a much smaller fraction of its resting length[GO]. |
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has_exact_synonym |
smooth muscle textus muscularis nonstriatus involuntary muscle non-striated muscle |
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has_narrow_synonym |
visceral muscle tissue visceral muscle |
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has_related_synonym |
textus muscularis levis; textus muscularis nonstriatus |
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label |
smooth muscle tissue |
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overlaps | ||
prefixIRI |
UBERON:0001135 |
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prefLabel |
smooth muscle tissue |
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