Crossword-Solution: ADVENTITIA
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| ARTERY, outer coat of | 1 answer |
| artery covering | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
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greedy person
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Sentences with ADVENTITIA (5)
The external coat, tunica adventitia, is composed mainly of fine and closely woven bundles of white connective tissue, which chiefly run diagonally or obliquely around the vessel.
The veins differ from arteries in possessing thinner walls, less elastic and muscular tissue, and for the most part a stronger tunica adventitia.
The outermost is the _tunica adventitia_, composed of connective tissue; immediately internal to this is the _yellow elastic_ coat; within this again the _muscular coat_, formed of involuntary.
The adventitia varies much in thickness, being better developed in the medium-sized than in the large arteries.
The adventitia shares in the general reduction, and gradually diminishes in thickness until, in the smallest arteries, it consists of only a few fibroelastic strands outside the muscle cells." (Piersol's Anatomy.) The large arteries differ from those of medium size mainly in the fact that there is no sharp line of demarcation between the intima and the media.