tissue

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When I reached my destination the tissue was a perfect mask, frozen stiff, and I had to be lifted from the sleigh.

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  1. noun A fine, very thin fabric, such as gauze.
  2. noun Tissue paper.
  3. noun A soft, absorbent piece of paper used as toilet paper, a handkerchief, or a towel.
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  • When I reached my destination the tissue was a perfect mask, frozen stiff, and I had to be lifted from the sleigh. —  The Story of a Pioneer
  • This is obviously an oversimplification, Celi said, but the demonstration that adults have brown fat that can be activated is, nevertheless, "powerful proof of concept" that the tissue could be a target for obesity-fighting drugs or even environmental fat-fighting strategies. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Meanwhile, many conservatives who supported Bush's action held out the promise that adult stem cells produced from human skin and other tissue could be as useful as the embryo-derived cells.
  • The classical criterion for a cell-autonomous specification of a tissue is the capability of primordial cells to produce this tissue in isolation from the remainder of the embryo. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • In order to shed some light on the olfactory epithelium transcriptome and search for possible receptor candidates a large set of EST from this tissue were analysed and compared to and combined with a similar zebrafish —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English tissu, a rich kind of cloth, from Old French, from past participle of tistre, to weave, from Latin texere; see teks- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from ME, tissue, tishew, tissew, tyssew, tysseu, from Old French tissu, a ribbon, fillet, head-band, or belt of woven stuff, from tissu, masculine, tissue, feminine, woven, plaited, interlaced, past participle of *tistre =Provencal teisser =Spanish tejer =Portuguese tecer =Italian tessere, from Latin texere, weave: see text.
  2. from tissue, n.
 

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