- elastic arteries
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Medical dictionary. 2011.
elastic arteries
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Elastic artery — Code TH H3.09.02.0.01010 An elastic artery (or large elastic artery or conducting artery) is an artery with a large number of collagen and elastin filaments in the tunica media, which gives it the ability to stretch in response to each pulse.… … Wikipedia
elastic — adj 1 Elastic, resilient, springy, flexible, supple are comparable when they mean able to endure strain (as extension, compression, twisting, or bending) without being permanently affected or injured. Elastic and resilient are both general and… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
elastic tissue — n. a connective tissue consisting largely of yellow, elastic fibers, occurring especially in the walls of arteries and veins … English World dictionary
arteries of mixed type — arteries having both elastic (conducting) and muscular (distributing) elements … Medical dictionary
Elastic fiber — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = GraySubject = 104 GrayPage = 377 Caption = Subcutaneous tissue from a young rabbit. Highly magnified. (Elastic fibers labeled at left. ) Caption2 = System = Precursor = MeshName = MeshNumber = DorlandsPre … Wikipedia
elastic tissue — noun connective tissue consisting chiefly of elastic fibers found in the dermis of the skin and in the walls of veins and arteries and in some tendons and ligaments • Hypernyms: ↑connective tissue • Substance Meronyms: ↑elastin * * * noun :… … Useful english dictionary
arteries of hybrid type — a term denoting the short transitional regions where arteries of the mixed or elastic (conducting) type pass into arteries of the muscular (distributing) type … Medical dictionary
elastic fibre — ▪ anatomy any of the yellowish branching fibres composed primarily of the protein elastin, frequently arranged in plates or perforated membranes, as in the walls of the large arteries. Unlike collagenous fibres, they show no orderly fibrous … Universalium
elastic tissue — Anat. connective tissue consisting chiefly of yellow, elastic fibers and composing certain ligaments and the walls of the arteries. [1860 65] * * * … Universalium
elastic tissue — elas′tic tis′sue n. anat. connective tissue consisting chiefly of yellow, elastic fibers and composing certain ligaments and the walls of the arteries … From formal English to slang
