areolar

[Eng. areol (e); -ar.] Pertaining to an areola. the cutis or areolar framework of the skin." Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat., vol. ii., p. 407. areolar ti ue. 1. Anat .: A ti ue widely diffused through the body, and composed of white and yellow fibres, the former imparting to it strength, and the latter elasticity. The two kinds of fibres interlace with each other again and again in the most complex manner. The interstices left between them are of very unequal size, and should not be called, as for a long time they were, cells. Areolar ti ue protects from injury the parts of the body in which it occurs, and when placed in the interstices of other ti ues it keeps the latter from moving as freely as otherwise they would. The cutis vera, or true skin, is composed of it, and it abounds in the exterior parts of the muscles and in the interstices between their fibres, beneath the skin, on the surface of the pharynx, and the œsophagus. ( Todd & Bowman: Physiol. Anat .) "This adipose ti ue is generally found a ociated with the areolar or connective ti ue." - Beale : Bioplasm (1872), § 182. 2. Bot. A term occasionally applied to cellular ti ue.