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In smooth muscle these transitionally alternating muscle fibers help to serve the actions of peristalsis. As the circular fibers contract the tube (lumen) constricts and as the longitudinal fibers contract it opens up the lumen.
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Is the stomach muscle involuntary?
It is actually four involuntary muscles. The longitudinal layer, circular layer and oblique layer of the muscularis externa and the pyloric sphincter
What is the function of the Longitudinal muscles in the GI tract?
The circular muscle layer prevents food from traveling backward and the longitudinal layer shortens the tract. By Ah Mok
Why is the stomach involuntary?
It is actually four involuntary muscles. The longitudinal layer, circular layer and oblique layer of the muscularis externa and the pyloric sphincter
What are the three layers of smooth muscle that form the wall of the vas deferens?
outer layer ============= longitudinal middle layer================ circular inner layer============ longitudinal
What are the subdivisions of the layer of muscularis?
The subdivisions of the wall layer muscularis externa are the longitudinal layer, circular layer, and oblique layer.
Inner circular and outer longitudinal layers are characteristic of the layer of the digestive tract?
muscularis
What is the part that made of an inner layer of circular smooth muscle and an outer layer of longitudinal smooth muscle?
It's the heart
What are the subdivisions of mucosa?
surface epithelium, lamina propria, and muscularis mucosae
Muscle between stomach and first part of small intestines?
There is a bilayer of muscles in the intestines called the muscularis externa. There is an inner circular layer and outer longitudinal layer. These two layers are responsible for the slow regular propulsion of food called peristalsis.
Which type of muscle makes up the majority of the bodies muscle tissue?
Workout on ur back. The back takes up 70% of your upper body muscle. It makes you look huge too.
How is the stomach different from other digestive organs?
The stomach is different from other organs of the digestive system because it has three layers of muscle in the muscular is externa. These are the inner oblique layer, the middle circular layer and the outer longitudinal layer.
What muscle layers surround the stomach?
from the inner part to the outer part of the stomach goes like this:*Oblique muscle layer, that comes after the first layer of mucosa;*Circular muscle layer. and Longitudinal muscle layer, these come consecutively from the inner part of the stomach to the outer part.Then after that comes the Serosa and then the body itselfhope it was uselful:]
