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tissue

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a blood/urine/tissue etc sample ▪ He compared the samples with a blood sample from Mr Green. connective tissue muscle tissue (= the substance that muscles are made from ) ▪ If you lose weight too quickly you will lose ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric. vb. To form tissue of; to interweave.

Usage examples of tissue.

The arrest of the abnormal breaking down of the tissues, and the prevention of emaciation.

The glands which had remained in contact for two or three days with the viscid masses were not discoloured, and apparently had absorbed little of the liquefied tissue, or had been little affected by it.

But with the incidence of acromegaly, the extremities continue to become enlarged, the hands and feet, the bones and cutaneous tissues of the face.

Gelatinous or interacinous adenoma, which consists in an enlargement of the acini by an accumulation of colloid material, and an increase in the interacinous tissue by a growth of round cells.

David remembered reading of adipocere, fatty tissues changed chemically to waxy material, preserving bodies for decades.

Gelatin, a constituent of soup and obtained from bones and connective tissue by boiling, is the best known of the albuminoid foods.

Boiled or steamed Potatoes should turn out floury, or mealy, by reason of the starch granules swelling up and filling the cellular tissue, whilst absorbing the albuminous contents of its cells.

All plants, moreover, have the power of dissolving albuminous or proteid substances, such as protoplasm, chlorophyll, gluten, aleurone, and of carrying them from one part to other parts of their tissues.

That ordinary alimentation, which includes the process of digestion, the subsequent vital changes involved in the conversion of food into blood, and its final transformation into tissue, causes mental languor and dullness, as well as bodily exhaustion, is attested by universal experience.

He was put upon a tonic and alterative course of treatment, which also embraced the use of such medicines as have been found to exert a specific, tonic action upon the muscular tissues of the heart.

I could see the lacy network of lung tissue formed into delicate alveolar sacs for exchange of gas between blood and air.

The amorphous tissue shuddered and pulsed in a manner unlike anything that Timothy had seen it do before.

They writhed and twisted and foamed, broke open in sores as the bacteria destroyed the binding structure of the amorphous tissue.

Cannibalistic behavior predates by decades the appearance of all disease symptoms, and by inference, the appearance of amyloid plaque lesions in the brain tissue.

Somehow, the temporal energy from the anomaly caused the fetal tissue to revert to an earlier stage of development.