SUBMUCOSA (submucosae)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: submucosae   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does submucosa mean? 

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

1. the connective tissue beneath mucous membrane

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBMUCOSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The connective tissue beneath mucous membrane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("submucosa" 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 

An invasive adenocarcinoma confined to the mucosa or mucosa and submucosa of the gastric wall.

(Early Gastric Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

It consists of mucosa, submucosa, muscular coat, and serosal surface.

(Intestinal Wall Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

A malignant epithelial neoplasm that arises from the colon and invades through the muscularis mucosa into the submucosa.

(Colon Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is composed of mucosa and submucosa and it may be associated with Plummer-Vinson syndrome.

(Esophageal Web, NCI Thesaurus)

There is no evidence of invasion into the submucosa.

(Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The small, compound, unbranched exocrine glands varying in number that are located within the submucosa of the esophagus.

(Esophageal Gland, NCI Thesaurus)

It is composed of a fibrous outer layer bounded by smooth muscle, the submucosa, and the mucosa.

(Gastric Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

Infiltration of malignant glandular epithelial cells into the lamina propria of the intestine of the mouse without involvement of the submucosa.

(Intramucosal Carcinoma of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplasm that arises from the gastric glandular epithelium and invades the lamina propria but not the submucosa.

(Gastric Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Cancer has spread from the mucosa (innermost layer) of the colon and/or rectal wall to the submucosa (layer of tissue under the mucosa) of the colon and/or rectal wall.

(Dukes A colorectal cancer, NCI Dictionary)