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n. - The sheath of connective tissue that covers a bundle of nerve fibers.

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  • The nerve fibres there figured are bound together by endoneurium into small ropes, the nerves, encased in perineurium.
  • It is continuous with septa which pass inward from the innermost layer of the perineurium, and shows a ground substance in which are imbedded fine bundles of fibrous...
  • The tubular sheath of the funiculi (perineurium) is a fine, smooth, transparent membrane, which may be easily separated, in the form of a tube, from the fibers it...
  • Each ganglion is invested by a smooth and firm, closely adhering, membranous envelope, consisting of dense areolar tissue; this sheath is continuous with the perineurium...
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