This thickening was mainly produced by an augmentation of the connective tissue of the adventitia and of the intima.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Outer layer: The outer layer the adventitia shields the artery from the rest of your body like sausage casing; it holds the artery together from the outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [You: On a Diet] Reference

The histological examination showed a large increase of the connective tissue of the adventitia and of the connective tissue of the intima, but the muscular fibres were normal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Figure 5.2 Moving Through The artery has three layers—the inner to help blood move through the artery (intima), the outer (adventitia) to protect it from the outside, plus a middle, muscular layer (media).    From Wordnik.com.  [You: On a Diet] Reference

This network forms an adventitia to the bloodvessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 4c. The Thymus] Reference

The connective tissue and adventitia were carefully removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The adventitia gradually merges into the surrounding connective tissue.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. Introduction] Reference

The full length of the thoracic aorta was aseptically dissected and the adventitia was removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In the adventitia of arteries the width of the meshes is ten times that of the capillary vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. Introduction] Reference

Briefly, the entire aorta from the aortic root to the iliac bifurcation was dissected out and the adventitia was removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

This latter is composed of a few circular unstriped muscle cells a. The adventitia, similar in structure to that of an artery.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. Introduction] Reference

The veins differ from arteries in possessing thinner walls, less elastic and muscular tissue, and for the most part a stronger tunica adventitia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

The external coat, tunica adventitia, is composed mainly of fine and closely woven bundles of white connective tissue, which chiefly run diagonally or obliquely around the vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

The external coat (tunica adventitia) consists mainly of fine and closely felted bundles of white connective tissue, but also contains elastic fibers in all but the smallest arteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. Introduction] Reference

The fibrous coat (tunica adventitia) is continuous at one end with the fibrous tunic of the kidney on the floor of the sinus; while at the other it is lost in the fibrous structure of the bladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 3b. 2. The Ureters] Reference

The elastic tissue is much more abundant next the tunica media, and it is sometimes described as forming here, between the adventitia and media, a special layer, the tunica elastica externa of Henle.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. Introduction] Reference

—The arteries are composed of three coats: an internal or endothelial coat (tunica intima of Kölliker); a middle or muscular coat (tunica media); and an external or connective-tissue coat (tunica adventitia).    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. Introduction] Reference

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) refers to the deposition of b - amyloid in the media and adventitia of small - and mid-sized arteries (and less frequently, veins) of the cerebral cortex and the leptomeninges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference

The endothelium is supported on a membrane separable into two layers, the outer of which is the thicker, and consists of a delicate, nucleated membrane (adventitia), while the inner is composed of a network of longitudinal elastic fibers (media).    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. Introduction] Reference

3 Layers - intima, media, adventitia there is little smooth muscle & connective tissue  makes they accumulate large volumes of blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Outside this is a, part of the adventitia.    From Wordnik.com.  [V. Angiology. Introduction] Reference