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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tissue
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 muscle tissue as well as fat.
scar tissue
▪ His hand was rough with scar tissue.
tissue paper (=very thin paper for wrapping things)
▪ All the clothes were wrapped in tissue paper.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
connective
▪ Heart tissue has a complex architecture that includes blood vessels and connective tissue, as well as muscle cells.
▪ Meanwhile, studies published in the Western Journal of Medicine found no evidence linking implants with connective tissue diseases.
▪ None had connective tissue disease then or in the follow up period.
▪ I was tired between synapses and in the connective tissue of organs.
▪ Most patients affected have been young women with connective tissue disorders who receive aspirin regularly in high dosage.
▪ Macrophage: a large scavenger cell present in connective tissue and in many major organs and tissues.
▪ A portion of the tail of the pancreas was then quickly excised, trimmed of adipose and connective tissue and used immediately.
▪ At these points there are also constrictions in the blood vessels and nerves, and weaknesses in the connective tissues.
different
▪ In the presence of malignancy it is known that different tissues can respond in different ways.
▪ They have also taken partly developed cells from one tissue and converted them into different tissue.
fatty
▪ These are quickly broken down, but it takes the body longer to shed fatty tissue, so weight loss slows down.
▪ When whales eat contaminated prey, organochlorines go first to the digestive system, and are then deposited in fatty tissues.
▪ Women, in particular, can train off too much fatty tissue, and this sometimes leads to menstrual problems.
fetal
▪ Much of the effort of the anti-abortion movement has been directed against clinicians and against researchers working on fetal tissue.
fibrous
▪ This remedy has an affinity for fibrous tissues, joints and tendons.
▪ The three nails are formed of dark fibrous tissue and are exceedingly sharp.
▪ The fibrous tissues round the infected area impedes access of antituberculous substances.
▪ Damaged or destroyed muscles eventually became replaced with fibrous tissues that shortened and contracted.
▪ In muscle disease degeneration of muscle fibres and replacement with fibrous tissue have been seen.
▪ Abnormal fibrous tissue overgrowth has long been known to affect a number of widely separate organ systems.
human
▪ Similarly, prostacyclin production in human atherosclerotic tissue appears to be reduced.
▪ Blood and muscle, and the unreliable human fuses and tissue.
▪ FIG. 4 Expression studies of the atk transcript. a, Expression of the atk transcript in a variety of human tissues.
▪ Inside my chest I can hear it screeching, although muted by ribcage and other human tissue.
▪ Under the microscope, human testicular tissue often looks unhealthy.
▪ Nerve gas tests with human tissue.
▪ Workers need to understand how quickly human tissue freezes, and the necessary precautions to prevent its occurrence.
▪ Shooting anything that moved, collecting every piece of human tissue.
living
▪ But it is an expensive one in terms of living tissue produced and it is not the only one possible.
▪ Inflammation is another internal defence mechanism and is a reaction of living tissue to infection, injury and irritants.
▪ It's more like a living tissue, like blood is.
▪ Damage to living tissue can be quantified by using the dose equivalent.
▪ The reaction of dental material placed in the cavity gives a measure of its toxicity to living tissues.
▪ How can one scale up from what can be counted in a two-dimensional section to the three dimensions of living tissue?
▪ The inert compounds react with living tissue and absorb the entire body.
lymphoid
▪ All cases were regarded according to a classification of Isaacson etal into high grade and low grade B-cell mucosa associated lymphoid tissue.
▪ The method is based on the maturation cycle of gut associated lymphoid tissue derived lymphocytes.
▪ They then migrate into the lymphoid tissue and eventually return to the blood circulation.
normal
▪ Tumour extracts also contained higher concentrations of immunoreactivity compared with normal tissue, in assays using antibodies L289 and 109-21.
▪ Tumours contain a relatively high water content and therefore have a relatively long T1 and T2 compared with normal soft tissue.
▪ The value obtained in these benign tubulovillous adenomas was significantly raised relative to both normal and malignant tissues.
▪ Researchers are trying to sort out the difference in genetic make-up both in cancers and in normal tissue.
▪ Activity and antigen levels of both activators were determined in homogenates of endoscopically obtained biopsies from normal and carcinomatous tissues.
▪ The concentrations of urokinase type plasminogen activator in the duodenum resemble the quantities found in normal stomach tissue biopsy specimens.
▪ This normal tissue injury is a limiting factor for radiotherapy dose.
▪ The tissue type plasminogen activator antigen concentrations in both oesophageal carcinomas and stomach carcinomas were similar to those of the normal tissues.
other
▪ Male speaker One of the concerns of gene therapy is that other tissue will be affected.
▪ One of these, designated B9, was expressed sparsely in terminal placenta and with varying levels in most other tissues.
▪ No expression was detected in aorta, vena cava and other rabbit tissues.
▪ These results suggest the existence of an isoenzyme that is inducible by endotoxin, as described in other tissue preparations.
▪ The brain synthesizes protein at a rate higher than that of any other tissue in the body.
pancreatic
▪ The content of platelet activating factor in pancreatic tissue was determined using bioassay technique with washed rabbit platelets as described previously.
▪ But only the pancreatic tissue will be transformed.
▪ Rich sources for the isolation of PLA2 are pancreatic tissue and juice, and snake and bee venoms.
▪ According to our finding caerulein infused at supramaximal dose increased the production of platelet activating factor in the pancreatic tissue by about nine-fold.
▪ Treatment with cyclosporin A in the doses used did not inhibit eicosanoid formation by the pancreatic tissue ex vivo.
▪ The early increase of pan-PLA2 values probably reflects the time of destruction of pancreatic tissue.
soft
▪ X-rays don't reveal much, either, since the inflammation lies in the soft tissues and not in the joints.
▪ The same laser already is approved for surgery on soft tissue, such as gum surgery for periodontal disease.
▪ The radio waves, magnetic field and computer technology combine to produce vivid images of the body's soft tissue.
▪ These include the development of tetany and the deposition of calcium phosphate in soft tissues.
▪ The only three-dimensional fossil of a dinosaur's soft tissue was unearthed here in the 90s.
▪ The Bulls' forward has been suffering from a soft tissue injury on the bottom of his left foot.
▪ Tumours contain a relatively high water content and therefore have a relatively long T1 and T2 compared with normal soft tissue.
▪ There is just one problem: brains are part of the soft tissue of the body and so do not survive fossilization.
surrounding
▪ These lie in the surrounding tissues.
▪ During an ectopic pregnancy, the foetus damages or ruptures surrounding tissue as it grows, which causes abdominal pain.
▪ This makes them useful for destroying tumours while leaving surrounding tissue unharmed.
▪ During this migration they receive signals from the surrounding tissues which directs them along the appropriate developmental pathway.
▪ This fibrous layer stops any chemical or biological bonding between the implant and the surrounding tissue.
various
▪ Northern blot analysis of Oct-11 and Oct-2 expression in various mouse tissues and cell lines.
▪ The majority of cortisol is either metabolized in various tissues or conjugated in the liver and excreted.
■ NOUN
body
▪ Cholesterol is a natural substance found in the body tissues of animals but not plants.
▪ At postmortem, the low fibre diet rats had more abnormalities and tumours of body tissue than the higher fibre diet rats.
▪ However, the spadefoot's body tissues have the remarkable ability to withstand the loss of large amounts of water.
▪ Water 1. Body tissues contain approximately 70% water which is essential for life. 2.
▪ Aids growth and repair of body tissue. 2.
brain
▪ More recently reductions in two other brain peptides, cholecystokinin and somatostatin have also been described in the brain tissue of schizophrenics.
▪ But once converted into prions, they turn deadly, destroying the brain tissue.
▪ A biopsy of brain tissue detected the presence of toxoplasmosis, which is relatively harmless in people with normally functioning immune systems.
▪ To be sure, scientists have created disease by inoculating animals with brain tissue from infected animals.
▪ She tried to regroup her scattered brain tissue, pulling back pieces of her mind before they were lost for ever.
▪ We are talking about the brain tissue of an aborted foetus whose gestation period has to be between 10 and 11 weeks.
▪ Over years, the prions relentlessly multiply, clumping together in brain tissue until the damage becomes apparent.
culture
▪ It can remove the deposits of pigment that clutter up old cells whether in tissue culture or in the brain.
▪ What is tissue culture and how might it be used?
▪ Some commentators will ask whether a tissue culture also counts as an entity to be respected.
▪ Observations of toxicity of glutamate in tissue culture are of uncertain relevance invivo.
▪ The alternatives - studying people, tissue culture, computer modelling etc. - are actually used much more than animal studies.
▪ Even if these cells are removed from the body and kept in tissue culture, they retain their characteristics through many cell divisions.
▪ The laboratories have extensive tissue culture facilities and there is a flow cytometric unit equipped with both analytical and cell sorting instruments.
▪ Designate a set of spatulas for dispensing tissue culture chemicals only and ensure that they are cleaned after every use.
damage
▪ Left to their own devices, these free radicals cause tissue damage.
▪ With tissue damage and necrosis, the cells disintegrate and leak their contents into the blood.
▪ For the physician, it is a demand to identify the objective source of the tissue damage which provoked the subjective awareness.
▪ Others use magnetic resonance imaging, like those used to find tissue damage in humans, to detect explosives.
▪ Supposing the physician can find no tissue damage or that there is an inappropriate relation between objective fact and subjective complaint.
▪ Injury or tissue damage stimulates nerve impulses in specialised sensory fibres. 2.
▪ Is this not proof that the pain felt by normal subjects mirrors the nature, intensity and location of tissue damage?
▪ The aim is to minimise tissue damage and further movement could do just the opposite!
disease
▪ None had connective tissue disease then or in the follow up period.
▪ Meanwhile, studies published in the Western Journal of Medicine found no evidence linking implants with connective tissue diseases.
granulation
▪ Blood fills the space and clots, capillaries grow into the clot and form granulation tissue.
▪ They keep the wound clean and moist and may be removed without traumatising newly formed granulation tissue and capillary buds.
▪ At this stage the healing area is reddish in appearance and is referred to as granulation tissue.
▪ The healing process is completed when epithelium grows in from the edge and covers the granulation tissue.
injury
▪ These three reactive oxygen species are believed to be responsible for tissue injury.
▪ The Bulls' forward has been suffering from a soft tissue injury on the bottom of his left foot.
▪ Understanding the movement of neutrophils and the mechanisms through which they mediate tissue injury is fundamental to elucidating the pathogenesis of relapse.
▪ The vascular endothelium seems to produce superoxide in the inflamed mucosa, which would exacerbate tissue injury in ulcerative colitis.
▪ This normal tissue injury is a limiting factor for radiotherapy dose.
lung
▪ Normal lung tissue and that from patients with focal fibrosis expressed very little ET-1.
▪ So small volumes of lung tissue are exposed to high doses of alpha radiation.
▪ The stretching of the elastic explains the elasticity of lung tissue and that energy is required to stretch the tissue.
muscle
▪ Lose weight too quickly and you will lose muscle tissue as well as fat.
▪ Massage-Good for general relaxation and to relieve stress buildup in the muscle tissue.
▪ In cases with massive deposits, there were degenerative changes in muscle fibres, with muscle tissue being replaced by amyloid.
▪ Nessim, who has created a documentary on cancer survivors, beat a rare muscle tissue cancer 21 years ago.
▪ Their finding could lead to new treatments for muscle wasting in humans, or ways to conserve muscle tissue during space flight.
▪ Loss of muscle tissue is accelerated in women at the time of menopause.
▪ The results in Fig. 3 confirm that the isoform is only expressed in visceral smooth muscle tissues.
▪ Larding slows the cooking process, however, since the fat heats more slowly than the muscle tissue.
paper
▪ The jar should be lined with damp paper tissue to keep the animal alive.
▪ Discoloration on a new white paper tissue rubbed several times over a surface. 5.
▪ He stirred the contents: paper tissues, a few torn envelopes, a discarded newspaper.
plasminogen
▪ Neither study, however, directly measured the ascitic concentrations of tissue plasminogen activator.
▪ Fibrinolytic activity was determined by a balance between tissue plasminogen activator and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1.
sample
▪ It can not be stressed too heavily that taking tissue samples was a highly sensitive matter.
▪ Then they studied blood and tissue samples from 211 Ashkenazim who had been colon cancer patients.
▪ The tissue samples are taken from the foetus at seven weeks old, when it is only about one inch long.
▪ She has to get manatees picked up and taken to the researchers quickly, before tissue samples deteriorate.
▪ Secondly, it has been impractical or impossible to gather data beyond vital signs and some blood and tissue samples.
▪ The tissue sample of the excised pancreas was placed in buffered formalin for two to four hours and transferred to 75% ethanol.
▪ One negative control sampled was processed for every three tissue samples examined.
▪ Thus, the variable orientation and size of individual tissue samples might have affected our results.
scar
▪ The scar tissue was old and seamed.
▪ Others need several revisions to their surgeries, and develop painful masses of scar tissue.
▪ We stop for the night in the middle of this scar tissue that will never heal.
▪ I notice George lightly touching the temporal lobe, exploring for scar tissue once more.
▪ The scar tissue with which animals seal their wounds is not directly comparable to the callus tissue of plants.
▪ The rough pebbles of scar tissue interrupted the deep lines that laughter had once carved into his temples.
▪ My brain is encrusted with scar tissue from all the frames he has pinched and nicked.
▪ Through the passing days, the biting cruelty of it all slowly healed, leaving only the scar tissue.
section
▪ Slides were subsequently processed as for tissue sections.
▪ When this was applied to tissue sections, however, most samples were found to inhibit the polymerase chain reaction.
▪ In each animal, a total of 30000 points were counted over consecutive visual fields across the tissue sections.
toilet
▪ Buy products made with recycled paper or plastic,such as bin liners, toilet tissue or kitchen paper.
▪ So does toilet tissue, which makes you wonder where a book is being read.
▪ Author Kevin Wilkins once worked in a factory near his home town of Barrow-in-Furness where he tested the quality of toilet tissue.
▪ Fort Sterling has recently introduced toilet tissue and paper towels made from 100 percent recycled paper.
tumour
▪ Similar values have been reported for tumour tissue.
type
▪ These results give rise to the hypothesis that endothelin might increase the tissue type plasminogen activator activity accompanying the gastric mucosal injury.
▪ About 2500 of these are registered in the computer, which stores relevant data on their blood and tissue types.
▪ Underwood and Carling's tissue types will be stored on computer until they can be matched up with somebody who needs them.
▪ In the presence of fibrin, tissue type plasminogen activator converts plasminogen to plasmin, which subsequently cleaves the chromogenic substrate.
▪ The amount of colour developed during a fixed time is proportional to the tissue type plasminogen activator activity in the sample.
▪ Her tissue type was A1, A2.
▪ The tissue type plasminogen activator antigen concentrations in both oesophageal carcinomas and stomach carcinomas were similar to those of the normal tissues.
▪ These results could suggest a prominent role of tissue type plasminogen activator in the pathogenesis of endothelin induced gastric mucosal damage.
■ VERB
cause
▪ Left to their own devices, these free radicals cause tissue damage.
▪ This causes tissue in the nose to expand, and voila, your nose is stuffed up.
▪ Sickling crises cause cumulative tissue damage which frequently does not manifest until the child is older.
find
▪ Others use magnetic resonance imaging, like those used to find tissue damage in humans, to detect explosives.
▪ I suppose he hopes the pathologist who butchers her will find skin tissue under her nails.
▪ Supposing the physician can find no tissue damage or that there is an inappropriate relation between objective fact and subjective complaint.
▪ Thus he found that when young tissue is transferred from place to place it changes its nature.
live
▪ Others were part of basic research on living tissue, and their benefits could not have been realised at the time.
▪ Its only living tissue is a thin layer of cambium just underneath the bark.
remove
▪ A biopsy involves removing a piece of tissue for examination.
▪ The latest is an outpatient procedure with a new gizmo that removes throat tissues with radio frequencies.
▪ This can be promoted by burning which removes woody tissue and locally enriches the soil.
▪ They removed malignant tissue from his prostate during an operation last Friday.
▪ A cone biopsy, which removes rather more tissue, requires a general anaesthetic.
show
▪ Direct measurements have shown that the inflamed tissues consume large amounts of energy.
use
▪ Personification: e.g. The nutrients are used by the tissues for building and repair.
▪ Dissection here takes place on cadavers or using tissue taken from them.
▪ Conté Carres gives a rich, dense black which suits my needs: I often use tissue paper to smudge the Conté.
▪ The foundation does support research using animal tissue.
▪ This antibody can be used on paraffin embedded tissue.
wrap
▪ Cutlery wrapped in singed tissue paper as fire-salvaged stock.
▪ Paul paper with wrapped in tissue and waited.
▪ It had been wrapped in tissue paper, like a treasure.
▪ It used to be beautifully wrapped in tissue paper.
▪ They were wrapped in coal-black tissue paper that rustled when she touched it.
▪ All the clothes were wrapped in tissue paper.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A day later, the tissue was inserted between stomach muscles, just above the bellybutton, where blood supply is plentiful.
▪ Biopsy tissues were fixed in buffered formalin and processed routinely through paraffin wax, ensuring optimal orientation at the embedding stage.
▪ Changes consisted in the tissue becoming larger or smaller, thicker or thinner, more or less refractive.
▪ Femfresh are individually wrapped, mildly fragrant, moist tissues.
▪ His estranged wife, Martha, dabbed at her eyes with a tissue and later hugged jurors in the hallway.
▪ Meanwhile, studies published in the Western Journal of Medicine found no evidence linking implants with connective tissue diseases.
▪ The Laboulbeniales are ectoparasites - most of their tissue remains outside the host - and only superficially penetrate into the host.
▪ The stairs were brushed, but pocked with scraps of eggshell and solidified tissues.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tissue

Tissue \Tis"sue\, n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.]

  1. A woven fabric.

  2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.

    A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire.
    --Dryden.

    In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials.
    --Milton.

  3. (Biol.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue.

    Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc.

  4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.

    Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion.
    --A. J. Balfour.

    Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.

Tissue

Tissue \Tis"sue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing.] To form tissue of; to interweave.

Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue.
--Bacon.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tissue

mid-14c., "band or belt of rich material," from Old French tissu "a ribbon, headband, belt of woven material" (c.1200), noun use of tissu "woven, interlaced," past participle of tistre "to weave," from Latin texere "to weave, to make" (see texture (n.)). The biological sense is first recorded 1831, from French, introduced c.1800 by French anatomist Marie-François-Xavier Bichal (1771-1802). Meaning "piece of absorbent paper used as a handkerchief" is from 1929. Tissue-paper is from 1777, supposedly so called because it was made to be placed between tissues to protect them.

Wiktionary
tissue

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

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WordNet
tissue

  1. n. a part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function

  2. a soft thin (usually translucent) paper [syn: tissue paper]

tissue

v. create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" [syn: weave]

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Wikipedia
Tissue

Tissue may refer to:

  • Tissue (biology), a group of biological cells that perform a similar way to function
  • Tissue paper, a type of thin, translucent paper used for wrapping and cushioning items
    • Facial tissue, a type of thin, soft, disposable paper used for nose-blowing
    • Wrapping tissue
    • Japanese tissue
  • Aerial tissue, an acrobatic art form and one of the circus arts
  • Tissue (moth), the geometer moth, Triphosa dubitata
Tissue (biology)

In biology, tissue is a cellular organizational level intermediate between cells and a complete organ. A tissue is an ensemble of similar cells from the same origin that together carry out a specific function. Organs are then formed by the functional grouping together of multiple tissues.

The study of tissue is known as histology or, in connection with disease, histopathology. The classical tools for studying tissues are the paraffin block in which tissue is embedded and then sectioned, the histological stain, and the optical microscope. In the last couple of decades, developments in electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, and the use of frozen tissue sections have enhanced the detail that can be observed in tissues. With these tools, the classical appearances of tissues can be examined in health and disease, enabling considerable refinement of medical diagnosis and prognosis.

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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.