tissue
IPA: tˈɪsju
noun
- Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
- A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
- A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
- Absorbent paper as material.
- (biology) A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to do a specific job.
- Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
- (horse racing, slang) The scratch sheet or racing form.
verb
- To form tissue of; to interweave.
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Examples of "tissue" in Sentences
- The tissue is osseous.
- It leads to the recovery of the tissue.
- Plant cells are tessellated to form tissues.
- The target tissue is the epithelial cells in the lung.
- Fibrotic tissue may predispose the tissue to ulceration.
- Leucine is utilized in the liver, adipose tissue, and muscle tissue.
- The best known function of tissue factor is its role in blood coagulation.
- Histogenesis is the formation of different tissues from undifferentiated cells.
- At the twelfth, brain tissue from the rats induced pyretic typhus in the guinea pig.
- Cancer cells which are immortal invade the surrounding tissue, and make it unfunctional.
- Osseous tissue, or bone tissue, is the major structural and supportive connective tissue of the body.
- To assess the susceptibility of nonhuman primates to CWD, two squirrel monkeys were inoculated with brain tissue from a CWD-infected mule deer.
- _The plasmo tissue_: This tissue is a liquid, the blood plasma, which is one of the important component parts of the life-giving substance, blood.
- Brain tissue from the CWD-infected squirrel monkeys contained the abnormal isoform of the prion protein, PrP-res, and displayed spongiform degeneration.
- _The cartilage tissue_: Practically the same applies to the cartilage tissue; but it is only recently that it has been found to what extent this is the case.
- The term tissue culture arose because most of the early cells were derived from primary tissue explants, a technique that dominated the field for over 50 years.
- These malformations occur when brain tissue from the cerebellum protrudes into the spinal canal, the result of a congenital deformity that might not appear until adulthood.
- _The gelatigenous tissue_: This tissue, chemically and otherwise peculiar as it is, forms the chief component part of many of the human organs, and it may be truly said that the lack of attention which its peculiarities have received in the past is responsible for more disease and its fatal issue than almost anything else.
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