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Tunica Media

"Tunica Media" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The middle coat of blood vessel walls, composed principally of thin, cylindrical, smooth muscle cells and elastic tissue. It accounts for the bulk of the wall of most arteries. The smooth muscle cells are arranged in circular layers around the vessel, and the thickness of the coat varies with the size of the vessel.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Tunica Media" by people in this website by year, and whether "Tunica Media" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 20 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2010
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