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albuginea::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | adventitia, tunic, tunica |
| Has types | sclera, sclerotic coat, tunica albuginea testes |
Examples of albuginea
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A penile fracture is an injury caused by the rupture of the tunica albuginea, which envelops the corpus cavernosum penis.
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The pathogenesis involves the woman bending the erect penis ventrally beyond the tensile strength of the tunica albuginea causing it to fracture.
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Under a tough membranous shell, the tunica albuginea, the testis of amniotes and some teleost fish, contains very fine coiled tubes called seminiferous tubules.
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- Whitish tunic
- Latin albus = white, Greek gen = form, hence, like boiled white of an egg.
- This goes back to the Latin root albus meaning white. It is the same albus that appears in albumen, meaning the white of an egg, and albumin (with an i) meaning the plasma protein. ...
- Tough white fibrous tissue. The tunica albuginea of the testis, for example, is the layer of dense whitish inelastic tissue that surrounds the testis.
- N. - white of eye; white fibrous tissue. albugineous, adj. like white of eye or egg.
