The epineurium is the outermost layer of dense irregular connective tissue surrounding a peripheral nerve. It usually surrounds multiple nerve fascicles as well as blood vessels which supply the nerve. Smaller branches of these blood vessels penetrate into the perineurium. When the spinal nerve leaves the vertebral canal via an intervertebral fora...
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• (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.
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(ep″ĭ-noor´e-um) the sheath of a peripheral nerve. adj., epineu´rial., adj.
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Ep`i·neu'ri·um noun [ New Latin , from Greek
'epi` upon + ... a nerve.]
(Anat.) 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.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: ep′i-nū′rē-ŭm Definitions: 1. The outermost supporting structure of peripheral nerve trunks, consisting of a condensation of areolar connective tissue; subdivided into those layers that surround the whole nerve trunk (epifascicular epineurium), and those layers that extend between the nerve fasci...
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(ep;u1-nyoo;re-um) A fibrous outer sheath of connective tissue surrounding a nerve.
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the dense sheath of connective tissue that surrounds the trunk of a nerve.
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