Sphincters
Subtitle: Normal Function-Changes in Diseases
Publisher: CRC
Published: April 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780849367489
Subjects: Surgery; Health/Fitness; Medical / Nursing; Sphincters; Physiology; Gastroenterology; Medical / Gastroenterology; Anus; Esophagogastric Junction; Pathophysiology
First sentence: According to Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary a sphincter is "a ringlike band of muscle fibers that constricts a passage or closes a natural orifice, called also musculus sphincter."