ZONULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does zonula mean? 

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

1. small beltlike zone

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZONULA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small beltlike zone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

zonula; zonule

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

zona; zone ((anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure)

 Context examples 

Fascia adherens, similar to a zonula adherens, is a half Z line found in the cardiac muscle as one of the three intercalated disks.

(Fascia Adherens, NCI Thesaurus)

Adherens junctions (AJs; also called the zonula adherens) are critical for the establishment and maintenance of epithelial layers, such as those lining organ surfaces.

(Beta Catenin, NCI Thesaurus/from OMIM)