Tunica Adventitia

Preferred Label : Tunica Adventitia;

NCIt definition : The outer connective tissue layer of the blood vessel wall. The adventitia consists of longitudinally arranged collagen fibers, elastic fibers, smooth muscle, fibroblasts, nerves and the vasa vasorum. It is thicker in veins than in arteries.;

Details

Origin ID

C33818;

UMLS CUI

C0225342;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Blood Vessel [NCIt concept]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- adventitia [MeSH Descriptor]
- tunica adventitia of blood vessel [UBERON concept]
Contains anatomical structure(s)
- Nervi Vascularis [NCIt concept]
- Vasa Vasorum [NCIt concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- tunica adventitia, nos [SNOMED Notion]
False automatic mappings
- Structure of tunica adventitia (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- adventitia [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Tissue [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Adventitia [FMA entity]
- Structure of tunica adventitia (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- adventitia [MeSH Descriptor]
- adventitia [Radlex concept]
- adventitia [MeSH concept]
- tunica adventitia of blood vessel [UBERON concept]
- tunica adventitia, nos [SNOMED Notion]

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