PERITHELIUM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tissue layer around small blood vessels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("perithelium" 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)

Derivation:

perithelial (of or relating to the tissue layer around small blood vessels)

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