PERIMYSIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does perimysium mean? 

• PERIMYSIUM (noun)
  The noun PERIMYSIUM has 1 sense:

1. the sheath of connective tissue that covers a bundle of muscle fibers

  Familiarity information: PERIMYSIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERIMYSIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sheath of connective tissue that covers a bundle of muscle fibers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("perimysium" is a kind of...):

connective tissue (tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments)

 Context examples 

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of inflammatory cells in the connective tissue that surrounds groups of muscle fibers (perimysium) and the connective tissue that surrounds individual muscle fibers (endomysium).

(Perimysial and Endomysial Inflammatory Infiltrate, NCI Thesaurus)