The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tylosis \Ty*lo"sis\, n.; pl. Tyloses. [NL., fr. Gr. ty`los a
lump, knot.] (Bot.)
An intrusion of one vegetable cell into the cavity of
another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells.
--Goodale.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a thickening of the skin, especially of the eyelids 2 a balloonlike growth in a plant cavity; a tylose
Wikipedia
Tylosis may refer to:
In medicine:- Diffuse nonepidermolytic palmoplantar keratoderma, a skin condition of the palms and soles
- Howel–Evans syndrome, a skin condition of the palms and soles that is also associated with esophageal cancer
- Tylosis (botany), a process in tree decay
- Tylosis (beetle), a genus of longhorn beetle
A tylosis (plural: tyloses) is a bladder-like distension of a parenchyma cell into the lumen of adjacent vessels in wood. Less certainly, the term tylosis is in use to summarise the physiological process and the resulting occlusion in the xylem of woody plants as response to injury or as protection from decay in heartwood. It is a key process in wall one of the Compartmentalization Of Decay In Trees (CODIT) and other woody plants.
Tylosis is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species:
- Tylosis dimidiata Bates, 1892
- Tylosis hilaris Linsley, 1957
- Tylosis jimenezii Dugès, 1879
- Tylosis maculatus LeConte, 1850
- Tylosis nigricollis Chemsak & Hovore, in Eya, 2010
- Tylosis oculatus LeConte, 1850
- Tylosis puncticollis Bates, 1885
- Tylosis suturalis White, 1853
- Tylosis triangularis Monné & Martins, 1981
Usage examples of "tylosis".
Crocker had an instance of this nature in a man with tylosis palmae, in which the skin was cast off every autumn, but the process lasted two months.