ADVENTITIA
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)
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 organs or cells of animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "adventitia"):
albuginea (whitish tunic)
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