Tunica

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Tunica is

  • a piece of clothing, see tunic

in biology:

  • the shell of tunicates (Tunicata)
  • the plant genus of rock carnations ( Petrorhagia , formerly Tunica )
  • Tunica (angiosperms) , a layer of cells in flowering plants
  • a thin layer of tissue in human and animal anatomy, for example
    • Tunica adventitia , an outer layer of connective tissue of tubular organs (blood vessels, esophagus, etc.)
    • other layers of blood vessels, see tunica intima and tunica media
    • Tunica muscularis , a fine layer of tissue in hollow organs
    • Tunica serosa , the smooth lining of the chest cavity, the abdominal cavity and the pericardium
    • the outer layers of the eyeball (Latin tunica externa bulbi , tunica media bulbi , tunica interna bulbi )

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Bear the surname Tunica :

  • Christian Tunica (1795–1868), German portrait and miniature painter, engraver and lithographer, court painter in Braunschweig and daguerreotype
  • Hermann Tunica (1826–1907), German portrait. and history painters as well as drawing teachers


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Wiktionary: Tunica  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations