The external coat, or tunica externa, is composed of fibrous tissue, containing, especially in vessels of medium calibre, some yellow elastic fibres in its deeper layers.
The middle coat usually escapes, but the tunica externa is generally thickened.
These valves are composed of semilunar folds of the tunica intima strengthened by an addition of connective tissue.
In most parts of the body the arteries lie in a sheath of connective tissue, from which fine fibrous processes pass to the tunica externa.
In the smaller arteries there is more or less uniform thickening of the tunica intima from proliferation of the endothelium and increase in the connective tissue in the elastic lamina--a form of obliterative endarteritis.
The inflammation associated with syphilis results in thickening of the tunica intima, whereby the lumen of the vessel becomes narrowed, or even obliterated--endarteritis obliterans.
The middle coat, or tunica media, consists of non-striped muscular fibres, arranged for the most part concentrically round the vessel.
On the night before her marriage the girl put off her toga praetexta and her mother placed on her a long white garment called a tunica recta or regilla, and her loosened hair was confined in a scarlet net.
The women in the early times wore the toga and the tunica the same as the men.
The tunica was worn indoors, when the toga was thrown off, and also outdoors, when the toga was worn over it.
The tunica continued to be worn but there arose as distinct apparel for women, the stola and the palla.
The tunica was a kind of woolen shirt, at first without sleeves, then with short sleeves reaching to the elbows, and in the time of the empire long sleeves were attached to it.
The stola was an oblong garment worn over the tunicaand extended to the feet.
This hernial sac, 6 e, will vary as to its position in regard to the tunica vaginalis, 6 d, according to the place whereat it dilates the peritonaeum at the ring.
Footnote: When a hydrocele is interposed between the eye and a strong light, the testis appears as an opaque body at the back of the tunica vaginalis.
In it is found embedded the infantile cord--the remains of the upper part of the peritoneal tunica vaginalis--a structure which will be considered in connexion with congenital herniae.
But in hydrocele of the separate tunica vaginalis, such impulse is not perceived.
The two coverings of fibro-serous structure which surrounded the testis in the loins become respectively the tunica albuginea and tunica vaginalis when the gland occupies the scrotal cavity.
Thus, if the serous spermatic tube close only at the top of the testicle, the bowel which traverses the open internal inguinal ring and pervious tube will not enter the tunica vaginalis.
Of the Tunica at Marksville, only two or three are still able to use the old tongue, but one of these proved to be an ideal informant and Doctor Swanton obtained from him a number of short stories and one long story in native text.
The layer of stroma below the superficial epithelium forms in the mammalian ovary the tunica albuginea.
The whole egg-tube is invested in a structureless tunica propria.
They form either direct continuations of the germogen and have the same histological structure, or in other cases are simply prolongations of the tunica propria, and serve as ligaments.
Over the tunica interior was worn the tunica exterior, or stola, the distinctive dress of the Roman matron (section 91).
For the sake of the omen she put on before going to sleep the tunica recta, or regilla, woven in one piece and falling to the feet.
The boy then dressed himself in the tunica recta (section 76), having one or two crimson stripes if he was the son of a senator or a knight, and over this was carefully draped the toga virilis.
The tunica interior did not differ much in material or shape from the tunic for men already described (section 236).
From them the tunic of the knight was called tunica angusti clavi (or angusticlavia), and that of the senator lati clavi (or laticlavia).
Under this official tunic the knight or senator wore usually a plain tunica interior.
At this period the dress of the matron consisted in general of three articles: the tunica interior, the tunica exterior or stola, and the palla.
The stola was sleeveless if the tunica interior had sleeves, but if the tunic itself was sleeveless the stola had them, so that the arm was always protected.
The chief article of dress was the tunica regilla already mentioned, which was fastened around the waist with a band of wool tied in the knot of Hercules (nodus Herculaneus), probably because Hercules was the guardian of wedded life.
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.
The internal, serous, or tunica intima, is the thinnest, and is continuous with the lining membrane of the heart.
The veins differ from arteries in possessing thinner walls, less elastic and muscular tissue, and for the most part a stronger tunica adventitia.
The basis of the lesion is in a collection of small round embryonal cells resembling lymph-cells, arranged in the connective tissue around the arterioles which come from the tunica albuginea.
There was a large quantity of water between the dura mater and tunica arachnoidea; this latter membrane was much thickened, and was of a milky white appearance.
The tunica arachnoidea was generally opake and very much thickened: the pia mater was loaded with blood, and the veins of that membrane were particularly enlarged.
There was a large quantity of water between the dura mater and tunica arachnoidea, and also between this latter membrane and the pia mater.
The tunica arachnoides had generally lost its transparency, and was considerably thickened.
There was a small quantity of water between the tunica arachnoidea and pia mater, and a number of opake spots on the former membrane.
The pericranium was but slightly adherent to the scull: the tunica arachnoidea, particularly where the hemispheres meet, was of a milky whiteness.
There was water between the membranes of the brain; and the want of transparency of the tunica arachnoidea, indicated marks of former inflammation.
The tunica arachnoidea had a milky whiteness, and was thickened.
There were some slight opacities of the tunica arachnoides, and the pia mater was a little inflamed: the other parts of the brain were in an healthy state, and its consistence natural.
Between the tunica arachnoidea and pia mater, there was a considerable accumulation of water.
The pericranium and dura mater adhered firmly to the scull; in many places there was an opake whiteness of the tunica arachnoides.
Each testicle is enveloped in a fibrous capsule, known as the tunica albuginea, from which fibrous septa pass into the interior of the organ, thus dividing it into a number of separate lobules.
The tunica sclerotica consists of two layers, which are with difficulty separated.
The tunica sclerotica, viewed through the conjunctiva, forms what is called the white of the eye.
Inside the temple was the statue of Apollo in a tunica talaris, or long garment, between his mother Latona and his sister Diana, the work of Scopas, Cephisodorus, and Timotheus.
A Saxon soldier, wearing a tunicacovered with a mantle, stockings, and shoes, with spurs.
He is wearing an ornamented tunica reaching to the ankles, and over it a voluminous mantle.
The tunica was girdled at the waist, and had wide sleeves extending to the elbow.
He is attired in a richly embroidered tunica and a mantle of ample proportions, gathered up with a brooch on the left shoulder.
It was usually worn over the Tunica or short Coat, whence the Proverb Tunica Pallio propior, and is more particularly observed to have been a Garment fashioned without Sleeves, that reached down to the Ancles.
The albe takes its name from the tunica alba, which was used as a purely secular garment until the ninth century.
The tunica vaginalis is the remains of a process of the peritoneum (processus vaginalis) which descends into the scrotum during foetal life some little time before the testis itself descends.
In those animals, such as the rabbit, in which the tests are sometimes in the scrotum and sometimes in the abdomen, the communication between the peritoneum and the tunica vaginalis remains throughout life.
The tunica media is composed of intermingled bundles of elastic tissue, smooth muscle fibers, and some fibrous tissue.
The tunic with long sleeves (tunica manicata) was a later fashion.
So by looking on the Sun through a Feather or black Ribband held close to the Eye, several Rain-bows will appear; the Shadows which the Fibres or Threds cast on the Tunica Retina, being border'd with the like Fringes of Colours.
Do not the Rays of Light in falling upon the bottom of the Eye excite Vibrations in the Tunica Retina?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tunica" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
