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The muscular coat of a hollow organ or tubular structure. [Mod. L. muscular]

- m. mucosae the thin layer of smooth muscle found in most parts of the digestive tube located outside the lamina propria mucosae and adjacent to the tela submucosa. SYN: lamina m. mucosae, muscular layer of mucosa.

mus·cu·la·ris .məs-kyə-'lar-əs n

1) the smooth muscular layer of the wall of various more or less contractile organs (as the bladder)

2) the thin layer of smooth muscle that forms part of a mucous membrane (as in the esophagus)

a muscular layer of the wall of a hollow organ (such as the stomach) or a tubular structure (such as the intestine or the ureter). The muscularis mucosae is the muscular layer of a mucous membrane complex, especially that of the stomach or intestine.