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TUNICA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue

Synonyms:

adventitia; tunic; tunica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("tunica" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tunica"):

albuginea (whitish tunic)

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 Context examples: 

A stretchable connective tissue membrane that is the outermost component of the tunica intima, delineating the border between the tunica media and the tunica intima.

(Internal Elastic Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)