anal sphincter

Questions about anal sphincter

What does anal sphincter mean?

anal sphincter means "the sphincter muscle of the anus".

What is another word for anal sphincter?

Close synonyms include sphincter ani, musculus sphincter ani. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anal sphincter a common word?

anal sphincter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.