physiological sphincter

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   a sphincter that is not recognizable at autopsy because its resting arrangement cannot be distinguished from adjacent tissue

   Broadersphincter

   Narrowercardiac sphincter

Questions about physiological sphincter

What does physiological sphincter mean?

physiological sphincter means "a sphincter that is not recognizable at autopsy because its resting arrangement cannot be distinguished from adjacent tissue".

Is physiological sphincter a common word?

physiological 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.