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adventitia

adventitia noun: the outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ.

Noun

adventitia (countable and uncountable, plural adventitias)

  1. The outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ.

adventitia meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Indonesian

adventitia in Tamil

அயலுறை, குருதிக் குழாய் வெளிப் படலம்

adventitia in Kannada

ಹೊರಗವುಸು

adventitia in Indonesian

layer encasing a visceral organ
adventisia

Forms of adventitia

pluraladventitias

Origin of adventitia

From the Latin adventitius (“extraneous”).

Words formed from adventitia

Questions about adventitia

What does adventitia mean?
Adventitia means the outermost layer of epithelial tissue encasing a visceral organ.
What is adventitia in Tamil?
Adventitia in Tamil is அயலுறை, குருதிக் குழாய் வெளிப் படலம். See Adventitia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is adventitia?
Adventitia is a noun.
What is the plural of adventitia?
The plural of adventitia is adventitias.

Words near adventitia in the dictionary

  1. adventious
  2. adventiously
  3. Adventism
  4. Adventist
  5. Adventists
  6. adventitia
  7. adventitial
  8. adventitially
  9. adventitias
  10. adventition
  11. adventitions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adventitia (page history and authors); adventitia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adventitia (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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