ZONA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zona mean? 

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

1. (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZONA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

zona; zone

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

anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)

Domain category:

anatomy; general anatomy (the branch of morphology that deals with the structure of animals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "zona"):

zona pellucida (thick membrane around the mammalian ovum; can be penetrated by one sperm in the fertilization process; usually remains around the fertilized egg until it is implanted in the wall of the uterus)

zonula; zonule (small beltlike zone)

 Context examples 

A morphologic finding indicating the presence of less than or equal to twenty five percent of clear or vacuolated cells that resemble the normal zona fasciculata in adrenocortical tumors.

(Cytoplasm Presence of Less than or Equal to Twenty Five Percent, NCI Thesaurus)