Epineurium
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Epineurium | |
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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. It consists of adipose tissue and fibrocollagenous tissues.
[edit] External links
- Organology at UC Davis nervous/pns/nerve1/nerve1 - "PNS, nerve (LM, Low)"
- Organology at UC Davis nervous/pns/nerve2/nerve1 - "PNS, nerve (LM, Medium)"
- Diagram at Howard