sclerosis
(ɪˈroʊ sɪs)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a hardening of a body tissue or part, or an increase of connective tissue or the like at the expense of more active tissue.
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neurosarcoma
(neurosarcoma, malignant neuroma)
Princeton's WordNet
a malignant neoplasm of nerve tissue and fibrous tissue and connective tissue
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malignant neuroma
(neurosarcoma, malignant neuroma)
Princeton's WordNet
a malignant neoplasm of nerve tissue and fibrous tissue and connective tissue
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fibroma
Webster Dictionary
a tumor consisting mainly of fibrous tissue. or of same modification of such tissue
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rhinoplasty
Webster Dictionary
plastic surgery of the nose to correct deformity or to replace lost tissue. Tissue may be transplanted from the patient's cheek, forehead, arm, etc., or even from another person
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cholesterin
Webster Dictionary
a white, fatty, crystalline substance, tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue. and especially in nerve tissue. in the bile, and in gallstones
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tissue
Webster Dictionary
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; as, epithelial tissue. connective tissue
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vivification
Webster Dictionary
one of the changes of assimilation, in which proteid matter which has been transformed, and made a part of the tissue or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc
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fascia
Webster Dictionary
the layer of loose tissue. often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis
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hypoderma
Webster Dictionary
a layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma
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syncytium
Webster Dictionary
tissue.in which the cell or partition walls are wholly wanting and the cell bodies fused together, so that the tissue consists of a continuous mass of protoplasm in which nuclei are imbedded, as in ordinary striped muscle
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fat
Webster Dictionary
an oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue. under Adipose
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phellogen
(ˈfɛl ə dʒən)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a layer of plant tissue outside of the true cambium, giving rise to cork tissue.
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slough
(ʌf)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a mass or layer of dead tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue.
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island
(ˈaɪ lənd)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
an isolated portion of anatomical tissue differing in structure from the surrounding tissue.
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parenchyma
(əˈrɛŋ kə mə)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the functional tissue of an animal organ as distinguished from its connective or supporting tissue.
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autolysis
(ɔˈtɒl ə sɪs)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the breakdown of plant or animal tissue by the action of enzymes contained in the tissue affected; self-digestion.
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pulp
Webster Dictionary
a tissue or part resembling pulp; especially, the soft, highly vascular and sensitive tissue which fills the central cavity, called the pulp cavity, of teeth
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cerebrin
Webster Dictionary
a nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue. or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance
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pseudoparenchyma
(ˌsu doʊ pəˈrɛŋ kə mə)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
(in certain fungi and red algae) a compact mass of tissue. made up of interwoven hyphae or filaments, that superficially resembles plant tissue.
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cirrhosis
(ɪˈroʊ sɪs)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a chronic disease of the liver in which fibrous tissue invades and replaces normal tissue. disrupting important functions, as digestion and detoxification.
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mesenchyme
(mesenchyme)
Princeton's WordNet
mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles
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connective tissue
(ˌkɒn ɛkˈtɪv ɪ ti)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a kind of tissue. usu. of mesoblastic origin, that connects, supports, or surrounds other tissue. and organs, including tendons, bone, cartilage, and fatty tissue.
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keloid
(keloid, cheloid)
Princeton's WordNet
raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair
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cheloid
(keloid, cheloid)
Princeton's WordNet
raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair
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edible fat
(edible fat)
Princeton's WordNet
oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue
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parenchyma
(parenchyma)
Princeton's WordNet
animal tissue that constitutes the essential part of an organ as contrasted with e.g. connective tissue and blood vessels
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kernicterus
(kernicterus)
Princeton's WordNet
an abnormal accumulation of bile pigment in the brain and other nerve tissue. causes yellow staining and tissue damage
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histocompatibility antigen
(ˌhɪs toʊ kəmˌpæt əˈbɪl ɪ ti)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
any antigen on the surface of tissue or blood cells that provokes an immune response and subsequent rejection of the tissue or cell when transplanted to an individual of a different antigenic type.
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elastosis
(elastosis)
Princeton's WordNet
breakdown of elastic tissue (as the loss of elasticity in the skin of elderly people that results from degeneration of connective tissue.
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