Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The thick sheath of connective tissue surrounding a nerve trunk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sheath of connective tissue around a fasciculus of nerve-tissue, as distinguished from the finer sheath of perineurium which similarly surrounds the smaller bundles or funiculi of which a nerve is ultimately composed. See
funiculus and perineurium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath, or perineurium.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun anatomy The
connective tissue framework andsheath of anerve whichbind together the nervebundles , each of which has its own special sheath, orperineurium .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The two roots pierce the dura mater separately, each receiving a sheath from this membrane; where the roots join to form the spinal nerve this sheath is continuous with the epineurium of the nerve.
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Horsley has demonstrated certain medullated fibers running in the epineurium and terminating in small spheroidal tactile corpuscles or end bulbs of Krause.
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In structure the common membranous investment, or sheath of the whole nerve (epineurium), as well as the septa given off from it to separate the fasciculi, consist of connective tissue, composed of white and yellow elastic fibers, the latter existing in great abundance.
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End-bulbs are found in the conjunctiva of the eye (where they are spheroidal in shape in man, but cylindrical in most other animals), in the mucous membrane of the lips and tongue, and in the epineurium of nerve trunks.
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Then we used a non-degradable suture to mark the site of the lesion at the epineurium. 10 µl NAT-NGF
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