The muscular layer (muscular coat, muscular fibers, muscularis propria, muscularis externa) is a region of muscle in many organs in the vertebrate body...

four layers of specialised tissue. From the inner cavity of the gut (the lumen) outwards, these are the mucosa, the submucosa, the muscular layer and the...

muscularis externa. The muscular layer consists of an inner circular layer and a longitudinal outer layer. The circular layer prevents food from traveling...

the muscular layer, and which indicate adenomyomatosis. The muscular layer is surrounded by a layer of connective and fat tissue. The outer layer of the...

in this layer interior to the oblique muscle layer. Outside of the submucosa lies the muscular layer. It consists of three layers of muscular fibres,...

colon, descending colon and the rectum, the muscular layer is instead bounded by adventitia. The muscular layer of the duodenum is bounded by both tissue...

the muscular layer.: 263  The muscular layer (also known as the muscularis propria ) consists of two layers of muscle, the inner and outer layer. The...

or part of the placenta attaches abnormally to the myometrium (the muscular layer of the uterine wall) during pregnancy. This condition was first documented...

and other animals, the vagina (pl.: vaginas or vaginae) is the elastic, muscular reproductive organ of the female genital tract. In humans, it extends from...

supply the muscularis externa (muscular layer) before forming a plexus (network of blood vessels) in the submucosa (a layer of connective tissue) called...

fold called Hartmann's pouch, where gallstones commonly get stuck. The muscular layer of the body is of smooth muscle tissue that helps the gallbladder contract...

Micrograph of entry point of appendicular arteries (arrows at level of inner muscular layer), not to be confused with a perforation. Meckel's diverticulum Appendix...

called cilia, which together with peristaltic contractions from the muscular layer, move the fertilized egg (zygote) along the tube. On its journey to...

membrane) and joins it to the muscular layer, the bulk of overlying smooth muscle (fibers running circularly within layer of longitudinal muscle). The...

colonic muscular layer, where blood vessels penetrate it. Left-sided diverticula are pseudodiverticula, since the herniation is not through all the layers of...

anus are surrounded by the internal and external anal sphincters, two muscular rings which control defecation.: 397  The anus is surrounded in its length...

Latin names translate to "the mucosa's own special layer" (lamina propria mucosae) and "muscular layer of the mucosa" (lamina muscularis mucosae). The muscularis...

muscular layer formed by two layers of smooth muscle arranged in circular bundles in the inner layer and in longitudinal bundles in the outer layer....

Calcification forms among vascular smooth muscle cells of the surrounding muscular layer, specifically in the muscle cells adjacent to atheromas and on the surface...

gastrointestinal tract, excluding the mouth Upper Lower Wall Serosa / Adventitia Subserosa Muscular layer Submucosa Circular folds Mucosa Muscularis mucosa...

arches within the mesentery known as arterial arcades, which may be several layers deep. Straight blood vessels known as vasa recta travel from the arcades...

The lamina propria is a thin layer of connective tissue that forms part of the moist linings known as mucous membranes or mucosae, which line various...

In many animals, the epithelium contains a layer of keratin, representing a coarser diet. The muscular layer of the esophagus has two types of muscle....

does not occur in the rectum as the tenia coli become a continuous muscular layer. Diverticulosis can then become diverticulitis if the patient develops...

esophagus. There are two muscular layers of the pharynx: the outer circular layer and the inner longitudinal layer. The outer circular layer includes: Superior...

the urethra. The urethra consists of three coats: muscular, erectile, and mucous, the muscular layer being a continuation of that of the bladder. Somatic...

microvessels that perfuse this muscular layer (vasa vasorum) leads to a collection of blood, or hematoma, between the layers of the artery wall. The hematoma...

Serosa is entirely different from the adventitia, a connective tissue layer which binds together structures rather than reducing friction between them...

plexus (or Auerbach's plexus) provides motor innervation to both layers of the muscular layer of the gut, having both parasympathetic and sympathetic input...

foregut of insects. In a bird's digestive system, the crop is an expanded, muscular pouch near the gullet or throat. It is a part of the digestive tract, essentially...