sphincter
Meaning of sphincter
noun
- A ringlike band of muscle that surrounds a bodily opening, constricting and relaxing as required for normal physiological functioning.
the iris sphincter in the eye
Information about sphincter
- It is a name.
- The plural form of sphincter is: sphincters.
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Hyphenation of sphincter
sphinc-ter
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- sphincter is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Translation of sphincter
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