TUNICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tunica mean? 

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

1. an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUNICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

adventitia; tunic; tunica

Hypernyms ("tunica" 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 "tunica"):

albuginea (whitish tunic)

 Context examples 

It is part of the tunica media of the blood vessels.

(External Elastic Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

The smooth muscle tissue present in the tunica media which is the middle layer of the aortic wall.

(Aorta Smooth Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

Inflammation of the tunica intima of an artery.

(Endarteritis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A thin layer of smooth muscle fibers found as a part of the tunica mucosa in the gastrointestinal tract and urinary bladder deep to the lamina propria mucosae.

(Muscularis Mucosa, NCI Thesaurus)

The smooth muscle tissue present in the tunica media which is the middle layer of the wall of an artery.

(Artery Smooth Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

The smooth muscle tissue present in the tunica media which is the middle layer of the wall of the arterial system.

(Arterial System Smooth Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

The smooth muscle tissue present in the tunica media which is the middle layer of the wall of an arteriole.

(Arteriole Smooth Muscle Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

The thin layer of smooth muscle fibers usually found as a part of the tunica mucosa deep to the lamina propria mucosae of the large intestine.

(Large Intestinal Muscularis Mucosa, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign smooth muscle neoplasm arising from the arrector pili muscle, tunica media of blood vessels, and dartos muscle of the genitalia.

(Cutaneous Leiomyoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Large vessels contain three layers of tissue, the tunica intima, tunica media, and tunica adventitia.

(Blood Vessel Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)