ENDONEURIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endoneurium mean? 

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

1. delicate connective tissue around individual nerve fibers in nerve

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDONEURIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Delicate connective tissue around individual nerve fibers in nerve

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("endoneurium" 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 

A benign, WHO grade I perineurioma that arises within the endoneurium.

(Intraneural Perineurioma, NCI Thesaurus)