AREOLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does areolar mean? 

• AREOLAR (adjective)
  The adjective AREOLAR has 1 sense:

1. relating to or like or divided into areolae

  Familiarity information: AREOLAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AREOLAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or like or divided into areolae

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

areolar; areolate

Context example:

areolar tissue

Pertainym:

areola (small space in a tissue or body part such as the area between veins on a leaf or an insect's wing)

Derivation:

areola (small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite)

 Context examples 

Tissue consisting of an external serous coat, subserous areolar tissue and lung parenchyma.

(Lung Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

Small, flat, granular glands embedded in the submucous areolar tissue of the duodenum.

(Brunner's Gland, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Purulent inflammation of the cellular or areolar tissue.

(Phlegmon, NCI Thesaurus)

The supporting or framework tissue of the animal body, formed of fibrous and ground substance with more or less numerous cells of various kinds; it is derived from the mesenchyme, and this in turn from the mesoderm; the varieties of connective tissue are: areolar or loose; adipose; dense, regular or irregular, white fibrous; elastic; mucous; and lymphoid tissue; cartilage; and bone; the blood and lymph may be regarded as connective tissues the ground substance of which is a liquid.

(Connective tissue, NCI Thesaurus)