a. Anat. and Path. [f. SUB- + SEROUS.]

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  1.  [SUB- 1 b.] a. Anat. Situated or occurring beneath a serous membrane, as subserous tissue. b. Path. Affecting the subserous tissue.

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1833.  Cycl. Pract. Med., II. 731/1. Its blood vessels and those of the sub-serous cellular tissue are deeply injected.

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1872.  T. G. Thomas, Dis. Women (ed. 3), 276. Neoplasms, whether they be submucous, subserous or mural, keep up a constant nervous irritation.

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1875.  trans. von Ziemssen’s Cycl. Med., X. 230. The subserous fibroid [of the uterus].

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1904.  Brit. Med. Jrnl., 10 Sept., 597. The great numbers of cells which are found wandering far and wide in the submucosa, the musculature, and the subserous tissue.

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  2.  [SUB- 20 b.] Somewhat serous.

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  In mod. Dicts.

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