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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2012 Jan 11;24(3):e147–e154. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2982.2011.01857.x

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Mean residual pressure from all subjects at every millimeter along the length of the anal canal. The peak residual pressure for the mean 15 cc rectal distention volume is at 1.6 cm from the anal verge. The peak shifts distally with larger rectal distention volumes, moving to 0.9 cm from the verge at 71 cc distention volume. This indicates the increasing relaxation of the IAS.