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    The tunica media (Neo-Latin "middle coat"), or media for short, is the middle tunica (layer) of an artery or vein. It lies between the tunica intima on...
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  • growth Media filter, a filter consisting of several different filter materials Tunica media, the middle layer of the wall of a blood vessel Media, Illinois...
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    of the blood vessels are: an inner tunica intima, a middle tunica media, and an outer tunica externa. The tunica externa is made from collagen and elastic...
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    layer (the tunica intima), a middle layer (the tunica media), and an outer layer (the tunica externa). In dissection, the inner coat (tunica intima) can...
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    Tunica is a town in and the county seat of Tunica County, Mississippi, United States, near the Mississippi River. Until the early 1990s when casino gambling...
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    The Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe, (Tunica: Yoroniku-Halayihku) formerly known as the Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe of Louisiana, is a federally recognized...
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    the innermost layer, the tunica intima, is secondary to the tear in the tunica media. Dissections originating in the tunica media are caused by disruption...
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  • up tunica in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tunica may refer to: The Latin word for tunic, a type of clothing typical in the ancient world Tunica (biology)...
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    thin membrane of elastic fibers in the tunica intima run parallel to the vessel. The middle layer tunica media is the thickest layer in arteries. It consists...
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    that forms the outermost part of the tunica intima of blood vessels. It separates tunica intima from tunica media. It is readily visualized with light...
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    namely the tunica intima, tunica media, and tunica externa, from innermost to outermost. The externa, alternatively known as the tunica adventitia, is...
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    which have shown significant deterioration of their tunica intima (and occasionally the tunica media), weakening the vessel walls and causing the artery...
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    vasa vasorum penetrates the outer (tunica adventitia) layer and middle (tunica media) layer almost to the inner (tunica intima) layer. In smaller vessels...
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    vascular wall is subdivided into three layers known as the tunica externa, tunica media, and tunica intima. The aorta is covered by an extensive network of...
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    angiotensin II. However, smooth muscle cells from the tunica media layer of the artery moved into the tunica intima, where the function of the smooth muscle...
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    Tunica Resorts, formerly known as Robinsonville until 2005,[citation needed] is a census-designated place (CDP) in northern Tunica County, Mississippi...
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    pulses.: 842  It is characterized by fibrosis of the tunica intima and calcification of the tunica media. Arteriosclerosis Monckeberg's arteriosclerosis Skin...
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  • tunica media of the artery, secrete neurotransmitters such as norepinephrine into the extracellular fluid surrounding the smooth muscle (tunica media)...
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  • In biology, a tunica (/ˈt(j)uːnɪkə/, UK: /ˈtʃuːnɪkə/; pl.: tunicae) is a layer, coat, sheath, or similar covering. The word came to English from the Neo-Latin...
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    and blood pressure through relaxation of smooth muscle cells in the tunica media layer of large arteries and smaller arterioles. When vasodilation causes...
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    and is known as the tunica media. The inner layer, is a thin lining of endothelium known as the tunica intima. The tunica media in the veins is much...
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    of an artery and subsequent dissection/separation of the tunica intima from the tunica media. A pseudoaneurysm, being associated with a vessel, can be...
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    Intima–media thickness (IMT), also called intimal medial thickness, is a measurement of the thickness of tunica intima and tunica media, the innermost...
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    atheromatous plaques in the arterial tunica intima, a region of the vessel wall located between the endothelium and the tunica media. The bulk of these lesions...
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    endothelial tunica intima. The middle layer is the tunica media, composed of smooth muscle tissue, and the outermost and thickest layer is the tunica adventitia...
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    histopathological changes of the aneurysmatic aorta are seen in the tunica media and intima layers. These changes include the accumulation of lipids in...
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    secrete IL-6 to stimulate osteoclast formation. Smooth muscle cells in the tunica media of many blood vessels also produce IL-6 as a pro-inflammatory cytokine...
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    nodular thickened and aneurysmal expanded artery: (a) tunica intima, (b) tunica media, (c) tunica adventitia, (d) newly formed connective tissue and fat...
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    are found in the muscular middle layer of the walls of arteries (the tunica media). It is an example of dystrophic calcification. This condition occurs...
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  • weakening process is characterized by the replacement of both the tunica externa and tunica media with granulation tissue, which subsequently undergoes transformation...
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