smooth muscle

Questions about smooth muscle

What does smooth muscle mean?

smooth muscle means "a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for smooth muscle?

Close synonyms include involuntary muscle. 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 smooth muscle a common word?

smooth muscle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.