Tunica Media - CISMeF

Preferred Label : Tunica Media;

NCIt definition : The middle layer of the blood vessel wall. It consists of concentrically arranged smooth muscle and may include elastic tissue. Its thickness will depend on the type of vessel, thicker in arteries than in veins.;

Details

Origin ID

C33821;

UMLS CUI

C0162867;

Anatomic structure is physical part of
- Blood Vessel [NCIt concept]
- Muscle [NCIt concept]
Contains anatomical structure(s)
- External Elastic Membrane [NCIt concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Structure of tunica media vasorum (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Tunica media [FMA entity]
- tunica media [UBERON concept]
- tunica media [MeSH Descriptor]
- tunica media [MeSH concept]
- tunica media of vessel, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- tunica media, nos [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Tissue [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Structure of tunica media vasorum (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Tunica media of vessel, NOS [Inactive SNOMED CT concept]
- tunica media [UBERON concept]
- tunica media [MeSH concept]
- tunica media [MeSH Descriptor]
- tunica media of vessel, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- tunica media, nos [SNOMED Notion]

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