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stomach smooth muscle circular layer
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- UBERON:0008857
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- middle circular muscle layer of stomach
- stratum circulare gastris
- Definition
- The middle layer of the muscularis; it is continuous with the circular layer of the esophagus, but is absent in the fundus and lies concentric to the longitudinal axis of the stomach; the circular layer is normally tonically constricted forming a functional pyloric sphincter, which controls the movement of chyme into the duodenum
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