tissue

[ˈtɪʃuː]

Definition:
1. A part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function.
2. A soft thin (usually translucent) paper.
3. Create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton.

Use 'tissue' in a sentence:

1. Once gangrene has developed the tissue is dead.
2. This has wiped 6% off the value of the soft tissue paper market in the UK.
3. Once gangrene has developed, the tissue is dead, and the only hope is to contain the damage.
4. Overall, almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper — including facial tissue and kitchen roll ― to save money.
5. They had rummaged around his thorax, trying to get close to the arrowhead and the tissue around it.
6. He shook his head and wiped his tears with a tissue.
7. The cat plays with tissue.
8. If you really needed to take out a lot of tissue, the cancer had, in all probability, already spread through the system.
9. Enzymes from normal ysosomes are exocytosed by some tissues.
10. Dissecting means you are using scissors to open up layers of tissue, called fascial planes, to get to the kidney.
11. A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr. Mironov, is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering "cultured" meat.
12. This special fatty tissue, the only other place is found in the dolphin, is in the lower jaw.
13. The fish and crabs scavenge for decaying tissue.
14. Many nematodes occur in the tissues of earthworm.
15. Some plants are woody in type—an adaptation designed to prevent collapse of the plant tissue when water stress produces wilting.
16. All the cells and tissues in the body benefit from the increased intake of oxygen.
17. The woman lost about 1.8kg of fatty tissue during the week's fast.
18. That slows the plant's metabolism and protects its dried-out tissues.
19. Insulin accumulates in muscle tissue and enters the bloodstream, allowing it to circulate throughout the body.
20. Tissue that is removed during the operation is checked for signs of malignancy.
21. They tested the men's fitness and resting metabolic rates and took samples of their blood and fat tissue.
22. After completing her Ph. D. on seeds, Farrant began investigating whether it might be possible to isolate the properties that make most seeds so resilient and transfer them to other plant tissues.
23. Abdominal tissues sometimes adhere after an operation.
24. The choroid plexus is composed of loose connective tissue of the piamater.
25. Their gauzy skirts had brushed up from the grass innumerable flies and butterflies which remained caged in the transparent tissue as in an aviary.
26. Carnivorous plants are, in fact, very inefficient at converting sunlight into tissue.
27. Exogenously supplied aspartate is not an active precursor of asparagine in plant tissues.
28. This fat tissue has some rather fascinating acoustical properties.
29. They have evolved special "heaters" of modified muscle tissue that warm the eyes and brain, maintaining peak performance of these critical organs.
30. Much like a newt that has lost a limb, these mice will replace missing or damaged tissue with healthy tissue that lacks any sign of scarring.
31. The woman scrubbed at her face with a tissue.
32. She arrived weeping, dabbing her eyes with a tissue.
33. This kind of tissue cannot endure rubbing.
34. The organ is penetrated with vascular tissue.
35. The tissue and cartilage of a nose are too soft to fossilize.
36. You see, adult female birds during egg production produce a layer of spongy bone tissue inside certain long bones.
37. After the death of an organism, the soft tissue is ordinarily consumed by scavengers and bacteria.
38. To implant a pacemaker anywhere in the body is to ask the tissues to carry an extra and unnatural weight.
39. When they detect an extended dry period, they divert their metabolisms, producing sugars and certain stress-associated proteins and other materials in their tissues.
40. They are commanding robot surgeons to cut away tissue more accurately than human surgeons can.
41. Hematopoietic tissue is the source of all the cells that are found in the blood.
42. The two drugs work hand in hand to combat the disease and help to repair damaged cells and tissue.
43. This spongy tissue serves as a source of calcium for eggshell formation.
44. The melon is kind of a large sac-like pouch, made up of fat tissue.
45. Government scientists have succeeded in isolating from mouse leukemia tissue another agent which has produced salivary gland cancers in mice.
46. Anaerobic respiration occurs only in particularly active tissues such as muscles during severe exercise.
47. Sit your child forward and let the blood drip into a tissue or on to the floor.
48. Athletes have hardly any fatty tissue.
49. She must excise every scrap of cancerous tissue.
50. They stain the mouse's brain tissue, so that different kinds of synapses show up in different colors.
51. Before applying make-up, blot the face with a tissue to remove any excess oils.
52. She wiped her nose with a tissue.
53. The virus remains dormant in nerve tissue until activated.
54. The scientist confirmed the snake was a previously unknown species after conducting a genetic analysis of tissue samples.
55. As we age we lose muscle tissue.