ADVENTITIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does adventitia mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADVENTITIA (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 ("adventitia" 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 "adventitia"):

albuginea (whitish tunic)

Derivation:

adventitial (of or pertaining to the adventitia)

 Context examples 

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

(Blood Vessel Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)