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1. A piece of soft absorbent paper that can be used as a handkerchief or a towel.
2. Organic body material in animals and plants made up of large numbers of cells that are similar in form and function and their related intercellular substances.
3. A collection of similar cells and the intercellular substances surrounding them.
5. A thin, finely woven fabric with a gauzy texture.
6. Etymology: a "band or belt of rich material", from Old French tissu, "a ribbon, headband, belt of woven material" (from about 1200); noun use of tissu, "woven, interlaced"; past participle of tistre, "to weave"; from Latin textere, "to weave".
2. Organic body material in animals and plants made up of large numbers of cells that are similar in form and function and their related intercellular substances.
3. A collection of similar cells and the intercellular substances surrounding them.
- epithelium, the cellular layer covering all free surfaces: cutaneous, mucous, and serous; including the glands and other structures derived from them
- connective tissues including adipose tissue, blood, bone, and cartilage
- muscle tissue
- nerve tissue
There are four basic kinds of tissue in the body:
5. A thin, finely woven fabric with a gauzy texture.
6. Etymology: a "band or belt of rich material", from Old French tissu, "a ribbon, headband, belt of woven material" (from about 1200); noun use of tissu, "woven, interlaced"; past participle of tistre, "to weave"; from Latin textere, "to weave".
The biological sense of "tissue" is first recorded in 1831, from French; introduced about 1800 by French anatomist Marie-François-Xavier Bichal (1771-1802).
Tissue-paper is from 1777, supposedly so called because it was made to be placed between tissues to protect them. The meaning of "piece of absorbent paper used as a handkerchief" came from 1929.
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tissue, tissue
tissue (TISH oo) (noun)
A material which is a part of animals and plants: "The soft tissue on her arm bruises easily."
tissue (TISH oo) (noun)
Soft paper: "She wrapped the gift in colorful tissue and tied a ribbon around it."
She had a slight cut on the tissue of her upper arm; so, she used a paper tissue to stop the bleeding.
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(Latin: horny, hornlike; horny [tissue] pertaining to the cornea, the horny transparent anterior portion of the external covering of the eyes)
(Greek: web, cloth, tissue)
(Greek: tissue [web]; beam or warp of a loom; hence, that which is woven; a web or tissue; used in the sense of pertaining to [body] tissue)
(Greek: horn, horny tissue; cornea)
(Greek: uvula; the small piece of soft tissue that can be seen dangling down from the soft palate over the back of the tongue)
(Latin: band, bandage; bundle, bunch; used in the extended sense of "pertaining to the fascia", a band or sheet of fibrous tissue providing a subcutaneous covering for various parts of the body)
(Named after the Italian physician and physicist who investigated the nature and effects of what he conceived to be electricity in animal tissue; who in 1762 discovered and first described voltaic electricity; electric currents; and primarily, direct electrical current.)
(Greek > Latin: swelling, a knot; center of a cavity; nerve center; pertaining to a mass of nerve tissue)
(Greek: an eating, or gnawing, sore ending in mortification, necrosis, or the death of bodily tissue; usually the result of ischemia or the loss of blood supply to the affected area, bacterial invasion, and subsequent putrefaction)
(Greek: glue; in medicine, the network of supporting tissue and fibers that nourishes nerve cells within the brain and spinal cord)
(Latin: protruded viscus; rupture; in the sense of "protrusion of tissue or part of an organ through an abnormal opening in the surrounding walls")
(Greek: narrow passage or ridge; narrow passage or strip [especially of bodily tissue] connecting two larger entities)
(Greek: a suffix; scientific names; names of metallic elements; a part, lining, or enveloping tissue, region; little; representing a diminutive force)
(Greek: water, yellowish fluid; connected with, or containing, lymph, a transparent fluid that is derived from body tissue and conveyed to the bloodstream by the lymphatic vessels)
(Greek: lipoid substance (containing or resembling fat) sheathing certain nerve fibers; lipoid substance found in body tissue)
(Greek: dead, death, dead body; dead tissue or cells; corpse)
(Latin: fat, adipose tissue; and by extension, caul, intestines)
(Latin: flesh, meat, fleshy parts of the body; fruit pulp; used mostly in reference to the tissue that exists in a tooth)
(Latin: small rounded mass of tissue, especially of lymphoid tissue; tonsil)
(Latin: a pendent, fleshy mass of tissue hanging from the soft palate above the root of the tongue; mucous membrane)
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“tissue”
The part of a person or an animal which consists of numerous cells and whose function is to support bodily organs, form ligaments and tendons, and fill spaces between the body parts of a physical structure: There are a number of examples of connective tissues; including bones, tendons, outer layers of the skin, and fatty cells.
One of the important elements of connective tissues involves cartilage which is a rubber-like padding that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints, and is a structural component of the rib cage, the ears, the nose, the bronchial tubes, the intervertebral discs, and many other components of the physical system.
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connective tissue nevus
A nevus composed of collagenous tissue; which is, any of a class of extracellular proteins abundant in higher animals; especially, in the skin, bone, cartilage, tendon, and teeth, forming strong insoluble fibers and serving as connective tissue between cells. It yields gelatin when denatured by boiling.
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elastic tissue
Connective tissue supplied with elastic fibers, as found in the middle layer of arteries.
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nodal tissue
1. Tissue from a lymph node.
2. Tissue from the sinoatrial node or atrioventricular node in the heart.
2. Tissue from the sinoatrial node or atrioventricular node in the heart.
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tissue
An organized group of cells and surrounding substances functioning together in a specialized activity.
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(a radiographic technique that produces an image of a detailed cross section of bodily tissue using a narrow collimated beam of x-rays that rotates in a full arc around a patient to image the body in cross-sectional slices)
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A connective tissue having an abundance of fat-storing cells and blood vessels for transporting fats: The adipose tissue is a connective tissue that serves as an energy reserve and also pads some organs.
Adipose tissue is normally called "fat tissue" and consists of large spherical cells filled with fat. Major layers are in the inner layer of the skin and around the kidneys and heart.
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