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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, the delicate connective tissue which supports and separates from one another the nerve-fibers within the funiculus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) The delicate bands of connective tissue among nerve fibers.

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  • noun anatomy A layer of delicate connective tissue enclosing the myelin sheath of a spinal cord nerve fiber.

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  • noun delicate connective tissue around individual nerve fibers in nerve

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  • The nerve fibers are held together and supported within the funiculus by delicate connective tissue, called the endoneurium.

    IX. Neurology. 1. Structure of the Nervous System 1918

  • The nerve fibres there figured are bound together by endoneurium into small ropes, the nerves, encased in perineurium.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • Collagenous - collagen fiber predominates Depending on the amount of collagen fiber - subdivided into: a. Loose - also called as "Areolar tissue" - with numerous potential spaces which can be distended by fluid, blood or pus; found in the papillary layer of dermis, hypodermis, serosal linings of the peritoneal and pleural cavities, pia mater of spinal cord, endomysium of muscles, endoneurium of nerves b.

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    Rational Review 2009

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