"tunica media" meaning in English

See tunica media in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: tunicae mediae [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tunica (“tunic”) + media (“middle”) Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|la|tunica||tunic}} Borrowed from Latin tunica (“tunic”) Head templates: {{en-noun|tunicae mediae}} tunica media (plural tunicae mediae)
  1. (anatomy) The middle layer of a blood vessel, located between the tunica intima and tunica externa. Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-tunica_media-en-noun-n6IOU-Fg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "tunica",
        "4": "",
        "5": "tunic"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin tunica (“tunic”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin tunica (“tunic”) + media (“middle”)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tunicae mediae",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tunicae mediae"
      },
      "expansion": "tunica media (plural tunicae mediae)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "orig": "en:Anatomy",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "Healthcare",
            "All topics",
            "Health",
            "Fundamental",
            "Body"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The middle layer of a blood vessel, located between the tunica intima and tunica externa."
      ],
      "id": "en-tunica_media-en-noun-n6IOU-Fg",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "blood vessel",
          "blood vessel"
        ],
        [
          "tunica intima",
          "tunica intima"
        ],
        [
          "tunica externa",
          "tunica externa"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) The middle layer of a blood vessel, located between the tunica intima and tunica externa."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tunica media"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "tunica",
        "4": "",
        "5": "tunic"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin tunica (“tunic”)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin tunica (“tunic”) + media (“middle”)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tunicae mediae",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tunicae mediae"
      },
      "expansion": "tunica media (plural tunicae mediae)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from Latin",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The middle layer of a blood vessel, located between the tunica intima and tunica externa."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "blood vessel",
          "blood vessel"
        ],
        [
          "tunica intima",
          "tunica intima"
        ],
        [
          "tunica externa",
          "tunica externa"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) The middle layer of a blood vessel, located between the tunica intima and tunica externa."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tunica media"
}

Download raw JSONL data for tunica media meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.