The smooth muscle layer of the stomach wall that functions to churn and mix food and gastric secretions as well as to move food along the digestive tract to the intestines. [ MP:0010779 ]
Synonyms: tunica muscularis (gaster) muscularis externa of stomach muscle layer of stomach gastric muscularis tunica muscularis gastris
Term information
- FMA:14909
- SCTID:362132003
pheno_slim
the muscularis externa in the stomach differs from that of other GI organs in that it has three layers of smooth muscle instead of two
Term relations
- layer of smooth muscle tissue
- muscular coat of digestive tract
- muscular coat
- mesoderm-derived structure
- part of some stomach smooth muscle
- part of some wall of stomach
- contributes to morphology of some wall of stomach
- contributes to morphology of some smooth muscle tissue
- composed primarily of some smooth muscle tissue