Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fine, very thin fabric, such as gauze.
- noun Tissue paper.
- noun A soft, absorbent piece of paper used as toilet paper, a handkerchief, or a towel.
- noun An interwoven or interrelated number of things; a web; a network.
- noun Biology An aggregation of morphologically similar cells and associated intercellular matter acting together to perform one or more specific functions in an organism. There are four basic types of tissue in many animals: muscle, nerve, epidermal, and connective.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To weave with threads of silver or gold, as in the manufacture of tissue.
- To clothe in or adorn with tissue.
- Figuratively, to weave; construct; elaborate.
- noun A woven or textile fabric; specifically, in former times, a fine stuff, richly colored or ornamented, and often shot with gold or silver threads, a variety of cloth of gold; now, any light gauzy texture, such as is used for veils, or, more indefinitely, any woven fabric of fine quality: a generic word, the specific sense of which in any use is determinable only by its connection or qualification.
- noun A ribbon, or a woven ligament of some kind.
- noun In biology, an aggregate of similar cells and cell-products in a definite fabric; a histological texture of any metazoic animal: as, muscular, nervous, cellular, fibrous, connective, or epithelial tissue; parenchymatous tissue.
- noun Specifically, in botany, the cellular fabric out of which plant-structures are built up, being composed of united cells that have had a common origin and have obeyed a common law of growth.
- noun Figuratively, an interwoven or interconnected series or sequence; an intimate conjunction, coördination, or concatenation.
- noun Same as
tissue-paper . Seepaper . - noun In photography, a film or very thin plate of gelatin compounded with a pigment, made on a continuous strip of paper, and used, after bichromate sensitization, for carbon-printing.
- noun In entomology, the geometrid moth Scotosia dubitata : an English collectors' name.
- noun In zoology, areolar tissue. See def. 3.
- noun In zoology, areolar tissue.
- Made of tissue.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To form tissue of; to interweave.
- noun A woven fabric.
- noun A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
- noun (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.
- noun Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
- noun very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Thin,
woven ,gauze -likefabric . - noun A
sheet ofabsorbent paper , especially one that is made to be used astissue paper ,toilet paper or ahandkerchief . - noun Absorbent paper as material.
- noun biology A group of similar
cells that function together to do a specific job - verb To form tissue of; to
interweave .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a soft thin (usually translucent) paper
- verb create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton
- noun part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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_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.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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_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.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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_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.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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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.
Woman's crushing headache took years to diagnose Sandra G. Boodman 2010
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Brain tissue from the CWD-infected squirrel monkeys contained the abnormal isoform of the prion protein, PrP-res, and displayed spongiform degeneration.
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Brain tissue from the CWD-infected squirrel monkeys contained the abnormal isoform of the prion protein, PrP-res, and displayed spongiform degeneration.
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To assess the susceptibility of nonhuman primates to CWD, two squirrel monkeys were inoculated with brain tissue from a CWD-infected mule deer.
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To assess the susceptibility of nonhuman primates to CWD, two squirrel monkeys were inoculated with brain tissue from a CWD-infected mule deer.
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At the twelfth, brain tissue from the rats induced pyretic typhus in the guinea pig.
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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.
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