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Latin sphincter, from Greek sphinkter, band, contractile muscle, from sphingein, to bind tight.
A sphincter is a ring-like muscle that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage or orifice and that relaxes as required by normal physiological functioning.
Some examples of sphincters include:
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