Corrugator cutis ani muscle

The corrugator cutis ani is a muscle of the human body, also known as the Ellis' muscle, after the anatomist George Viner Ellis.[1]

Corrugator cutis ani muscle
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Identifiers
LatinMusculus corrugator cutis ani
Anatomical terms of muscle

Around the anus is a thin stratum of involuntary muscle fiber, which radiates from the orifice. Medially the fibers fade off into the submucous tissue, while laterally they blend with the true skin. By its contraction it raises the skin into ridges around the margin of the anus. The name of this muscle is primarily limited to older texts.

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References

This article incorporates text in the public domain from page 425 of the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)

  1. http://www.dartmouth.edu/~humananatomy/resources/glossary.html


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