Definition of Epineurium

1. n. 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.

Definition of Epineurium

1. Noun. (anatomy) 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. ¹

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Definition of Epineurium

1. [n -RIA or -RIUMS]

Medical Definition of Epineurium

1. 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. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Upon + a nerve. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epineurium

epinastic
epinasties
epinastine
epinasty
epinemin
epinephrin
epinephrine
epinephrine cyclase
epinephrine reversal
epinephrines
epinephrins
epinephros
epineural
epineuria
epineurial
epineurium (current term)
epineuriums
epineuston
epinglette
epinglettes
epinicial
epinician
epinicion
epinicions
epinosic
epinosis
epinucleation
epionychium
epiornis
epiotic

Literary usage of Epineurium

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

1. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery and Their Allied Sciences by New Sydenham Society (1875)
"The connective tissue in the interior of this is named by these observers the endoneurium, and that external to it the epineurium. In injected nerves the ..."

2. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"I. Lymph-space between epineurium and surface of nerve-bundle. In structure the common membranous investment, or sheath of the whole nerve, which is called ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"In structure the common membranous investment, or sheath of the whole nerve, which is called the epineurium. as well as the septa given off from it, ..."

4. Text-book of normal histology: including an account of the development of by George Arthur Piersol (1904)
"The larger blood-vessels enclosed within the epineurIum give off branches, which surround the funiculi and break up into capillaries passing within the ..."

5. The Brain Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg, Rudolph Leonhard Tafel (1887)
"As the epineurium approaches the outer surface of the ganglion fat appears in its tissue ; it becomes looser, and is finally attached to the outermost ..."

6. A Text-book of Histology: Arranged Upon an Embryological Basis by Philipp Stöhr, Frederic Thomas Lewis (1913)
"This loose, tissue, which surrounds the entire nerve and its several cords, is the epineurium; its connective tissue bundles are chiefly longitudinal, ..."

7. Elements of Histology by Edward Klein, John Sydney Edkins (1898)
"The general stroma \ly which these bundles are held together is fibrous connective tissue called the epineurium (Key and Retzius); this epineurium is the ..."

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