A-rē'o-lar, a.

a. [From Lat. areola, q. v.] Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areolæ. Lawrence.

Areolar tissue (Anat.), a loose mixture of the white, fibrous, and yellow elastic tissues, as the loose texture which connects the skin with subjacent parts;—so called from its interspaces.