Epineurium

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Epineurium
Transverse section of human tibial nerve. (Epineurium labeled at upper right.)
Nerve structure
Gray's subject #183 728
MeSH Epineurium
Dorlands/Elsevier e_12/12338150

The epineurium is the outermost layer of connective tissue surrounding a peripheral nerve. It includes the blood vessels supplying the nerve.

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Nervous tissue - edit
Neurons (gray matter): soma, axon (axon hillock, axoplasm, axolemma, neurofibril/neurofilament), dendrite (Nissl body, dendritic spine)
types (bipolar, pseudounipolar, multipolar, pyramidal, Purkinje, Renshaw, granule)

Synapses: neuropil, boutons, synaptic vesicle, neuromuscular junction, electrical synapse

Sensory receptors: Free nerve ending, Meissner's corpuscle, Merkel nerve ending, Muscle spindle, Pacinian corpuscle, Ruffini ending, Olfactory receptor neuron, Photoreceptor, Hair cell, Taste bud

Glial cells: astrocyte, ependymal cells, microglia, radial glia

Myelination (white matter): Schwann cell, oligodendrocyte, nodes of Ranvier, internode, Schmidt-Lanterman incisures, neurolemma

closely related Connective tissue: epineurium, perineurium, endoneurium, nerve fascicle, meninges