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ADVENTITIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adventitia mean?
• ADVENTITIA (noun)
The noun ADVENTITIA has 1 sense:
1. an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue
Familiarity information: ADVENTITIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("adventitia" is a kind of...):
membrane; tissue layer (a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adventitia"):
albuginea (whitish tunic)
Derivation:
adventitial (of or pertaining to the adventitia)
Context examples
Large vessels contain three layers of tissue, the tunica intima, tunica media, and tunica adventitia.
(Blood Vessel Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)
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