See Also: elastic tissue(medicine)
Verhoeff's elastic tissue stain(medicine)
hyaline degeneration of the elastic tissue of the arterial wall(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
phrenic(dictionary)
Phrenic(medicine)
phrenic ganglia(medicine)
Phrenic nerve(medicine)
phrenic ampulla(medicine)
phrenic nucleus(medicine)

phrenic ganglia (medicine) and elastic tissue (medicine)


phrenic ganglia (medicine)


phrenic ganglia


Several small autonomic ganglia contained in the plexuses accompanying the inferior phrenic arteries.

Synonym: ganglia phrenica.


elastic tissue (medicine)


elastic tissue


A form of connective tissue in which the elastic fibres predominate; it constitutes the ligamenta flava of the vertebrae and the ligamentum nuchae, especially of quadrupeds; it occurs also in the walls of the arteries and of the bronchial tree, and connects the cartilages of the larynx.

Synonym: elastica, tela elastica.