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Muscle architecture of the esophagus wall. The fiber orientations are shown by the dashed lines. The outer longitudinal muscle fibers are oriented along the length of the esophagus, the middle circular muscle fibers are oriented in the tangential direction, and the inner mucosal layer has its fibers in the axial direction.
