Definition of Smooth muscle cell

1. Noun. Cells of the smooth muscles.

Generic synonyms: Muscle Cell, Muscle Fiber, Muscle Fibre
Group relationships: Smooth Muscle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smooth Muscle Cell

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smooth dogfish
smooth down
smooth earthball
smooth endoplasmic reticulum
smooth fox terrier
smooth fox terriers
smooth green snake
smooth hammerhead
smooth jazz
smooth leprosy
smooth lip fern
smooth manifold
smooth microsome
smooth muscle
smooth muscle cell (current term)
smooth muscle relaxant
smooth muscle tissue
smooth muscle tumour
smooth muscular sphincter
smooth operator
smooth operators
smooth out
smooth over
smooth plane
smooth sailing
smooth snake
smooth snakes
smooth softshell
smooth strain

Literary usage of Smooth muscle cell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of the Principles of Animal Histology by Ulric Dahlgren, William Allison Kepner (1908)
"The smooth muscle cell, like all muscle cells, owes its contractile power to the development of a varying number of myo-fibrils in its cytoplasm. ..."

2. The Principles of Pathologic Histology by Frank Burr Mallory (1914)
"For example, a leiomyoma, a smooth muscle tumor, arises from the proliferation of a smooth muscle-cell or of a cell which, ..."

3. The Principles of Pathologic Histology by Frank Burr Mallory (1914)
"For example, a leiomyoma, a smooth muscle tumor, arises from the proliferation of a smooth muscle-cell or of a cell which, under normal conditions, ..."

4. The Principles of Pathologic Histology by Frank Burr Mallory (1914)
"For example, a leiomyoma, a smooth muscle tumor, arises from the proliferation of a smooth muscle-cell or of a cell which, under normal conditions, ..."

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