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Definition of Areolar

1. Adjective. Relating to or like or divided into areolae. "Areolar tissue"

Definition of Areolar

1. a. Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ.

Definition of Areolar

1. Adjective. Of, or relating to an areola or areole. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Areolar

1. areola [adj] - See also: areola

Medical Definition of Areolar

1. Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolae. Reolar tissue, a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibres are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areolae, between them. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Areolar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Microscopical Researches Into the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of by Theodor Schwann (1847)
"Most areolar tissue may be distended by forcing air into it, and then innumerable cellular spaces arc seen communicating with each other in it ; it is not ..."

2. The Physiological Anatomy and Physiology of Man by Robert Bentley Todd, William Bowman (1857)
"Of the areolar tissue of muscles.—This tissue is much more abundant in the ... The areolar tissue does not usually clothe every individual fibre from end to ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Several varieties of connective tissue are recognized: (1) areolar tissue. ... areolar Tissue.—This is so called because its meshes can be easily distended ..."

4. A Text-book of Histology by Alexander A. Böhm, M. von Davidoff (1904)
"The fibrous elements of areolar connective tissue are, ... In dense areolar connective tissue the fibrous elements appear to have nearly displaced the ..."

5. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"Between the fascia transversalis and the peritoneum is a quantity of loose areolar tissue. In some .subjects it i,s it siderable thickness and loaded with ..."

6. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"PHLEGMONOUS INFLAMMATION OF THE ORBITAL areolar TISSUE. ... The areolar tissue which envelops the muscles and nerves of the orbit, and by which the eyeball ..."

7. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1854)
"A nerve is a leash of nerve-fibres, surrounded and connected by areolar tissue. The areolar tissue surrounding the nerve-fibres is called the ..."

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