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Adventitia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The membranous outer covering of an organ or a blood vessel.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. the membranous outer covering of an organ or blood vessel.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In anatomy, any membranous structure covering an organ but not properly belonging to it (in full, membrana adventitia, adventitious membrane); specifically, the outermost of the three coats of a blood-vessel (in full, tunica adventitia, adventitious tunic), consisting of connective tissue.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

Word Usage

"Figure 5.2 Moving Through The artery has three layers—the inner to help blood move through the artery (intima), the outer (adventitia) to protect it from the outside, plus a middle, muscular layer (media)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

tissue layer membrane

Hyponym

albuginea

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