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Tunica Adventitia
The outer connective tissue layer of the blood vessel wall. The adventitia consists of longitudinally arranged collagen fibers, elastic fibers, smooth muscle, fibroblasts, nerves and the vasa vasorum. It is thicker in veins than in arteries. (NCI Thesaurus)
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