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slovo definícia tissue (encz) tissue,epitel n: [bio.] mamm tissue (encz) tissue,papírový kapesník Zdeněk Brož tissue (encz) tissue,pletivo n: [bio.] mamm tissue (encz) tissue,tkáň [med.] TonyMi tissue (encz) tissue,tkanina n: Zdeněk Brož Tissue (gcide) Tissue \Tis"sue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing.] To form tissue of; to interweave. [1913 Webster] Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Tissue (gcide) Tissue \Tis"sue\, n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.] 1. A woven fabric. [1913 Webster] 2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. [1913 Webster] A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. (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; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. [1913 Webster] Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc. [1913 Webster] 4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. [1913 Webster] Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. --A. J. Balfour. [1913 Webster] Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc. [1913 Webster] tissue (wn) tissue n 1: part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function 2: a soft thin (usually translucent) paper [syn: tissue, tissue paper] v 1: create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton; "tissue textiles" [syn: weave, tissue]

podobné slovo definícia connective tissue (encz) connective tissue,pojivová tkáň Zdeněk Brož elastic tissue (encz) elastic tissue, n: embryonic tissue (encz) embryonic tissue, n: epithelial tissue (encz) epithelial tissue, n: erectile tissue (encz) erectile tissue, n: facial tissue (encz) facial tissue, n: fatty tissue (encz) fatty tissue, n: fibrous tissue (encz) fibrous tissue, n: granulation tissue (encz) granulation tissue, n: interstitial tissue (encz) interstitial tissue, n: lymphatic tissue (encz) lymphatic tissue, n: lymphoid tissue (encz) lymphoid tissue, n: muscular tissue (encz) muscular tissue, n: nerve tissue (encz) nerve tissue, n: nervous tissue (encz) nervous tissue, n: osseous tissue (encz) osseous tissue, n: plant tissue (encz) plant tissue, n: scar tissue (encz) scar tissue, n: striated muscle tissue (encz) striated muscle tissue, n: tissue layer (encz) tissue layer, n: tissue paper (encz) tissue paper,hedvábný papír Zdeněk Brož tissue plasminogen activator (encz) tissue plasminogen activator, n: tissue typing (encz) tissue typing, n: tissue-paper (encz) tissue-paper,hedvábný papír Zdeněk Brož tissues (encz) tissues,papírové kapesníky Zdeněk Brožtissues,tkáně Zdeněk Brož toilet tissue (encz) toilet tissue,toaletní papír Zdeněk Brož vascular tissue (encz) vascular tissue, n: Adipose tissue (gcide) Adipose \Ad"i*pose`\ (?; 277), a. [L. adeps, adipis, fat, grease.] Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty. [1913 Webster] Adipose fin (Zool.), a soft boneless fin. Adipose tissue (Anat.), that form of animal tissue which forms or contains fat. [1913 Webster] Adiposeness Carbon tissue (gcide) Carbon \Car"bon\ (k[aum]r"b[o^]n), n. [F. carbone, fr. L. carbo coal; cf. Skr. [,c]r[=a] to cook.] (Chem.) 1. An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite. [1913 Webster] 2. (Elec.) A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp; also, a plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3. a sheet of carbon paper. [PJC] 4. a carbon copy. [PJC] Carbon compounds, Compounds of carbon (Chem.), those compounds consisting largely of carbon, commonly produced by animals and plants, and hence called organic compounds, though their synthesis may be effected in many cases in the laboratory. [1913 Webster] The formation of the compounds of carbon is not dependent upon the life process. --I. Remsen carbon copy, originally, a copy of a document made by use of a carbon paper, but now used generally to refer to any copy of a document made by a mechanical process, such as xerographic copying. Carbon dioxide, Carbon monoxide. (Chem.) See under Carbonic. Carbon light (Elec.), an extremely brilliant electric light produced by passing a galvanic current through two carbon points kept constantly with their apexes neary in contact. Carbon point (Elec.), a small cylinder or bit of gas carbon moved forward by clockwork so that, as it is burned away by the electric current, it shall constantly maintain its proper relation to the opposing point. Carbon paper, a thin type of paper coated with a dark-colored waxy substance which can be transferred to another sheet of paper underneath it by pressing on the carbon paper. It is used by placing a sheet between two sheets of ordinary writing paper, and then writing or typing on the top sheet, by which process a copy of the writing or typing is transferred to the second sheet below, making a copy without the need for writing or typing a second time. Multiple sheets may be used, with a carbon paper placed above each plain paper to which an impression is to be transferred. In 1997 such paper was still used, particularly to make multiple copies of filled-in purchase invoice forms, but in most applications this technique has been superseded by the more faithful xerographic reproduction and computerized printing processes. Carbon tissue, paper coated with gelatine and pigment, used in the autotype process of photography. --Abney. Gas carbon, a compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of pencils for the voltaic, arc, and for the plates of voltaic batteries, etc. [1913 Webster]Carbon process \Car"bon process\ (Photog.) A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called double transfer. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] carbon tissue (gcide) Carbon \Car"bon\ (k[aum]r"b[o^]n), n. [F. carbone, fr. L. carbo coal; cf. Skr. [,c]r[=a] to cook.] (Chem.) 1. An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is combustible, and forms the base of lampblack and charcoal, and enters largely into mineral coals. In its pure crystallized state it constitutes the diamond, the hardest of known substances, occuring in monometric crystals like the octahedron, etc. Another modification is graphite, or blacklead, and in this it is soft, and occurs in hexagonal prisms or tables. When united with oxygen it forms carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid, or carbonic oxide, according to the proportions of the oxygen; when united with hydrogen, it forms various compounds called hydrocarbons. Compare Diamond, and Graphite. [1913 Webster] 2. (Elec.) A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp; also, a plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3. a sheet of carbon paper. [PJC] 4. a carbon copy. [PJC] Carbon compounds, Compounds of carbon (Chem.), those compounds consisting largely of carbon, commonly produced by animals and plants, and hence called organic compounds, though their synthesis may be effected in many cases in the laboratory. [1913 Webster] The formation of the compounds of carbon is not dependent upon the life process. --I. Remsen carbon copy, originally, a copy of a document made by use of a carbon paper, but now used generally to refer to any copy of a document made by a mechanical process, such as xerographic copying. Carbon dioxide, Carbon monoxide. (Chem.) See under Carbonic. Carbon light (Elec.), an extremely brilliant electric light produced by passing a galvanic current through two carbon points kept constantly with their apexes neary in contact. Carbon point (Elec.), a small cylinder or bit of gas carbon moved forward by clockwork so that, as it is burned away by the electric current, it shall constantly maintain its proper relation to the opposing point. Carbon paper, a thin type of paper coated with a dark-colored waxy substance which can be transferred to another sheet of paper underneath it by pressing on the carbon paper. It is used by placing a sheet between two sheets of ordinary writing paper, and then writing or typing on the top sheet, by which process a copy of the writing or typing is transferred to the second sheet below, making a copy without the need for writing or typing a second time. Multiple sheets may be used, with a carbon paper placed above each plain paper to which an impression is to be transferred. In 1997 such paper was still used, particularly to make multiple copies of filled-in purchase invoice forms, but in most applications this technique has been superseded by the more faithful xerographic reproduction and computerized printing processes. Carbon tissue, paper coated with gelatine and pigment, used in the autotype process of photography. --Abney. Gas carbon, a compact variety of carbon obtained as an incrustation on the interior of gas retorts, and used for the manufacture of the carbon rods of pencils for the voltaic, arc, and for the plates of voltaic batteries, etc. [1913 Webster]Carbon process \Car"bon process\ (Photog.) A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portions being dissolved away). If the process stops here it is called single transfer; if the image is afterward transferred in order to give an unreversed print, the method is called double transfer. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] cellular tissue (gcide) Conjunctive \Con*junc"tive\, a. [L. conjunctivus.] 1. Serving to unite; connecting together. [1913 Webster] 2. Closely united. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Conjunctive mood (Gram.), the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood. Conjunctive tissue (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also cellular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase. [1913 Webster]Cellular \Cel"lu*lar\ (s[e^]l"[u^]*l[~e]r; 135), a. [L. cellula a little cell: cf. F. cellulaire. See Cellule.] 1. Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. [1913 Webster] 2. porous; containing cavities. [PJC] 3. pertaining to or using a system of transmission of telephone signals by radio, in which areas are divided into geographical parts (cells), each of which is served by a transmitter whose range is limited to that region, thus permitting a single transmission frequency to be used simulataneously in different parts of the same area. Cellular telephones are typically small and battery powered, allowing a subscriber with such a telephone to carry the telephone in a pocket or purse, over the entire area served, and to be contacted by a single telephone number. The system became widespread and popular in the 1980's and 1990's; as, cellular telephones sometimes lose their link unpredictably. [PJC] Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and alg[ae]. Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential element of every tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants and animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicating with each other. Cellular tissue. (a) (Anat.) See conjunctive tissue under Conjunctive. (b) (Bot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts. [1913 Webster] Cellular tissue (gcide) Conjunctive \Con*junc"tive\, a. [L. conjunctivus.] 1. Serving to unite; connecting together. [1913 Webster] 2. Closely united. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Conjunctive mood (Gram.), the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood. Conjunctive tissue (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also cellular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase. [1913 Webster]Cellular \Cel"lu*lar\ (s[e^]l"[u^]*l[~e]r; 135), a. [L. cellula a little cell: cf. F. cellulaire. See Cellule.] 1. Consisting of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. [1913 Webster] 2. porous; containing cavities. [PJC] 3. pertaining to or using a system of transmission of telephone signals by radio, in which areas are divided into geographical parts (cells), each of which is served by a transmitter whose range is limited to that region, thus permitting a single transmission frequency to be used simulataneously in different parts of the same area. Cellular telephones are typically small and battery powered, allowing a subscriber with such a telephone to carry the telephone in a pocket or purse, over the entire area served, and to be contacted by a single telephone number. The system became widespread and popular in the 1980's and 1990's; as, cellular telephones sometimes lose their link unpredictably. [PJC] Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and alg[ae]. Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential element of every tissue, either vegetable or animal, is a cell; the whole series of cells having been formed from the development of the germ cell and by differentiation converted into tissues and organs which, both in plants and animals, are to be considered as a mass of minute cells communicating with each other. Cellular tissue. (a) (Anat.) See conjunctive tissue under Conjunctive. (b) (Bot.) Tissue composed entirely of parenchyma, and having no woody fiber or ducts. [1913 Webster] Conjunctive tissue (gcide) Conjunctive \Con*junc"tive\, a. [L. conjunctivus.] 1. Serving to unite; connecting together. [1913 Webster] 2. Closely united. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Conjunctive mood (Gram.), the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood. Conjunctive tissue (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also cellular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase. [1913 Webster] Connection tissue (gcide) Connective \Con*nect"ive\, a. Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. [1913 Webster] Connection tissue (Anat.) See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive. [1913 Webster] connective tissue (gcide) Conjunctive \Con*junc"tive\, a. [L. conjunctivus.] 1. Serving to unite; connecting together. [1913 Webster] 2. Closely united. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Conjunctive mood (Gram.), the mood which follows a conjunction or expresses contingency; the subjunctive mood. Conjunctive tissue (Anat.), the tissue found in nearly all parts of most animals. It yields gelatin on boiling, and consists of vriously arranged fibers which are imbedded protoplasmic cells, or corpuscles; -- called also cellular tissue and connective tissue. Adipose or fatty tissue is one of its many forms, and cartilage and bone are sometimes included by the phrase. [1913 Webster] Elastic tissue (gcide) Elastic \E*las"tic\ ([-e]*l[a^]s"t[i^]k), a. [Formed fr. Gr. 'elay`nein to drive; prob. akin to L. alacer lively, brisk, and E. alacrity: cf. F. ['e]lastique.] 1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic. [1913 Webster] Capable of being drawn out by force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its own elasticity returning, when the force is removed, to its former position. --Paley. [1913 Webster] 2. Able to return quickly to a former state or condition, after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution. [1913 Webster] Elastic bitumen. (Min.) See Elaterite. Elastic curve. (a) (Geom.) The curve made by a thin elastic rod fixed horizontally at one end and loaded at the other. (b) (Mech.) The figure assumed by the longitudinal axis of an originally straight bar under any system of bending forces. --Rankine. Elastic fluids, those which have the property of expanding in all directions on the removal of external pressure, as the air, steam, and other gases and vapors. Elastic limit (Mech.), the limit of distortion, by bending, stretching, etc., that a body can undergo and yet return to its original form when relieved from stress; also, the unit force or stress required to produce this distortion. Within the elastic limit the distortion is directly proportional to the stress producing it. Elastic tissue (Anat.), a variety of connective tissue consisting of a network of slender and very elastic fibers which are but slightly affected by acids or alkalies. Gum elastic, caoutchouc. [1913 Webster] Entertissued (gcide) Entertissued \En`ter*tis"sued\, a. Same as Intertissued. Entheal Erectile tissue (gcide) Erectile \E*rect"ile\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]rectile.] 1. Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated; as, erectile tissue. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to an erection[5]; as, erectile dysfunction. [PJC] Erectile tissue (Anat.), a tissue, such as that contained in the penis, which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by accumulation of blood in and the consequent distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains. [1913 Webster] Indifferent tissue (gcide) Indifferent \In*dif"fer*ent\, a. [F. indiff['e]rent, L. indifferens. See In- not, and Different.] [1913 Webster] 1. Not making a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance. [1913 Webster] Dangers are to me indifferent. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Everything in the world is indifferent but sin. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] His slightest and most indifferent acts . . . were odious in the clergyman's sight. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster] 2. Neither particularly good, not very bad; of a middle state or quality; passable; mediocre. [1913 Webster] The staterooms are in indifferent order. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 3. Not inclined to one side, party, or choice more than to another; neutral; impartial. [1913 Webster] Indifferent in his choice to sleep or die. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 4. Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family. [1913 Webster] It was a law of Solon, that any person who, in the civil commotions of the republic, remained neuter, or an indifferent spectator of the contending parties, should be condemned to perpetual banishment. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 5. (Law) Free from bias or prejudice; impartial; unbiased; disinterested. [1913 Webster] In choice of committees for ripening business for the counsel, it is better to choose indifferent persons than to make an indifferency by putting in those that are strong on both sides. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Indifferent tissue (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue. [1913 Webster] Intertissued (gcide) Intertissued \In`ter*tis"sued\, a. Interwoven. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] Mucous tissue (gcide) Mucous \Mu"cous\, a. [L. mucosus, fr. mucus mucus.] 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance. [1913 Webster] 2. Secreting a slimy or mucigenous substance; as, the mucous membrane. [1913 Webster] Mucous membrane. (Anat.) See under Membrane. Mucous patches (Med.), elevated patches found in the mucous membranes of the mouth and anus, usually due to syphilis. Mucous tissue (Anat.), a form of connective tissue in an early stage of development, found in the umbilical cord and in the embryo, and also in certain tumors called myxomata. [1913 Webster] reolar tissue (gcide) Areolar \A*re"o*lar\, a. Pertaining to, or like, an areola; filled with interstices or areol[ae]. [1913 Webster] reolar tissue (Anat.), a form of fibrous connective tissue in which the fibers are loosely arranged with numerous spaces, or areol[ae], between them. [1913 Webster] Areolate Tissue (gcide) Tissue \Tis"sue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing.] To form tissue of; to interweave. [1913 Webster] Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]Tissue \Tis"sue\, n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.] 1. A woven fabric. [1913 Webster] 2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. [1913 Webster] A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. (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; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. [1913 Webster] Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc. [1913 Webster] 4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. [1913 Webster] Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. --A. J. Balfour. [1913 Webster] Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc. [1913 Webster] tissue culture (gcide) Culture \Cul"ture\ (k?l"t?r; 135), n. [F. culture, L. cultura, fr. colere to till, cultivate; of uncertain origin. Cf. Colony.] 1. The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind. [1913 Webster] If vain our toil We ought to blame the culture, not the soil. --Pepe. [1913 Webster] 3. The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste. [1913 Webster] What the Greeks expressed by their paidei`a, the Romans by their humanitas, we less happily try to express by the more artificial word culture. --J. C. Shairp. [1913 Webster] The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture. --Tylor. [1913 Webster] 4. (Biol.) (a) The cultivation of bacteria or other organisms (such as fungi or eukaryotic cells from mulitcellular organisms) in artificial media or under artificial conditions. (b) The collection of organisms resulting from such a cultivation. Note: The growth of cells obtained from multicellular animals or plants in artificial media is called {tissue culture}. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC] Note: The word is used adjectively with the above senses in many phrases, such as: culture medium, any one of the various mixtures of gelatin, meat extracts, etc., in which organisms cultivated; culture flask, culture oven, culture tube, gelatin culture, plate culture, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 5. (Cartography) Those details of a map, collectively, which do not represent natural features of the area delineated, as names and the symbols for towns, roads, houses, bridges, meridians, and parallels. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Culture fluid, Culture medium a fluid in which microscopic organisms are made to develop, either for purposes of study or as a means of modifying their virulence. If the fluid is gelled by, for example, the use of agar, it then is called, depending on the vessel in which the gelled medium is contained, a plate, a slant, or a stab. [1913 Webster +PJC] Tissue paper (gcide) Paper \Pa"per\ (p[=a]"p[~e]r), n. [F. papier, fr. L. papyrus papyrus, from which the Egyptians made a kind of paper, Gr. pa`pyros. Cf. Papyrus.] 1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried. [1913 Webster] 2. A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance. [1913 Webster] 3. A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society. [1913 Webster] They brought a paper to me to be signed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper. [1913 Webster] 5. Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper. [1913 Webster] 6. Decorated hangings or coverings for walls, made of paper. See Paper hangings, below. [1913 Webster] 7. A paper containing (usually) a definite quantity; as, a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc. [1913 Webster] 8. A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper. [1913 Webster] 9. pl. Documents establishing a person's identity, or status, or attesting to some right, such as the right to drive a vehicle; as, the border guard asked for his papers. [PJC] Note: Paper is manufactured in sheets, the trade names of which, together with the regular sizes in inches, are shown in the following table. But paper makers vary the size somewhat. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] Note: In the manufacture of books, etc., a sheet, of whatever size originally, is termed, when folded once, a folio; folded twice, a quarto, or 4to; three times, an octavo, or 8vo; four times, a sextodecimo, or 16mo; five times, a 32mo; three times, with an offcut folded twice and set in, a duodecimo, or 12mo; four times, with an offcut folded three times and set in, a 24mo. [1913 Webster] Note: Paper is often used adjectively or in combination, having commonly an obvious signification; as, paper cutter or paper-cutter; paper knife, paper-knife, or paperknife; paper maker, paper-maker, or papermaker; paper mill or paper-mill; paper weight, paper-weight, or paperweight, etc. [1913 Webster] Business paper, checks, notes, drafts, etc., given in payment of actual indebtedness; -- opposed to accommodation paper. Fly paper, paper covered with a sticky preparation, -- used for catching flies. Laid paper. See under Laid. Paper birch (Bot.), the canoe birch tree ({Betula papyracea}). Paper blockade, an ineffective blockade, as by a weak naval force. Paper boat (Naut.), a boat made of water-proof paper. Paper car wheel (Railroad), a car wheel having a steel tire, and a center formed of compressed paper held between two plate-iron disks. --Forney. Paper credit, credit founded upon evidences of debt, such as promissory notes, duebills, etc. Paper hanger, one who covers walls with paper hangings. Paper hangings, paper printed with colored figures, or otherwise made ornamental, prepared to be pasted against the walls of apartments, etc.; wall paper. Paper house, an audience composed of people who have come in on free passes. [Cant] Paper money, notes or bills, usually issued by government or by a banking corporation, promising payment of money, and circulated as the representative of coin. Paper mulberry. (Bot.) See under Mulberry. Paper muslin, glazed muslin, used for linings, etc. Paper nautilus. (Zool.) See Argonauta. Paper reed (Bot.), the papyrus. Paper sailor. (Zool.) See Argonauta. Paper stainer, one who colors or stamps wall paper. --De Colange. Paper wasp (Zool.), any wasp which makes a nest of paperlike material, as the yellow jacket. Paper weight, any object used as a weight to prevent loose papers from being displaced by wind, or otherwise. on paper. (a) in writing; as, I would like to see that on paper. (b) in theory, though not necessarily in paractice. (c) in the design state; planned, but not yet put into practice. Parchment paper. See Papyrine. Tissue paper, thin, gauzelike paper, such as is used to protect engravings in books. Wall paper. Same as Paper hangings, above. Waste paper, paper thrown aside as worthless or useless, except for uses of little account. Wove paper, a writing paper with a uniform surface, not ribbed or watermarked. paper tiger, a person or group that appears to be powerful and dangerous but is in fact weak and ineffectual. [1913 Webster]Tissue \Tis"sue\, n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser, tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See Text.] 1. A woven fabric. [1913 Webster] 2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures. [1913 Webster] A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] In their glittering tissues bear emblazed Holy memorials. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 3. (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; as, epithelial tissue; connective tissue. [1913 Webster] Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing in structure and function, which go to make up an organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc. [1913 Webster] 4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood. [1913 Webster] Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious emotion. --A. J. Balfour. [1913 Webster] Tissue paper, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate articles, etc. [1913 Webster] Tissued (gcide) Tissue \Tis"sue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tissued; p. pr. & vb. n. Tissuing.] To form tissue of; to interweave. [1913 Webster] Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]Tissued \Tis"sued\, a. Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. --T. Warton. [1913 Webster] Vascular tissue (gcide) Vascular \Vas"cu*lar\, a. [L. vasculum a small vessel, dim. of vas vessel: cf. F. vasculaire. See Vase, and cf. Vessel.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Biol.) (a) Consisting of, or containing, vessels as an essential part of a structure; full of vessels; specifically (Bot.), pertaining to, or containing, special ducts, or tubes, for the circulation of sap. (b) Operating by means of, or made up of an arrangement of, vessels; as, the vascular system in animals, including the arteries, veins, capillaries, lacteals, etc. (c) Of or pertaining to the vessels of animal and vegetable bodies; as, the vascular functions. [1913 Webster] 2. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to the higher division of plants, that is, the phaenogamous plants, all of which are vascular, in distinction from the cryptogams, which to a large extent are cellular only. [1913 Webster] Vascular plants (Bot.), plants composed in part of vascular tissue, as all flowering plants and the higher cryptogamous plants, or those of the class Pteridophyta. Cf. Cellular plants, under Cellular. Vascular system (Bot.), the body of associated ducts and woody fiber; the fibrovascular part of plants. Vascular tissue (Bot.), vegetable tissue composed partly of ducts, or sap tubes. Water vascular system (Zool.), a system of vessels in annelids, nemerteans, and many other invertebrates, containing a circulating fluid analogous to blood, but not of the same composition. In annelids the fluid which they contain is usually red, but in some it is green, in others yellow, or whitish. [1913 Webster] Vasiform tissue (gcide) Vasiform \Vas"i*form\, a. [L. vas a vessel + -form.] (Biol.) Having the form of a vessel, or duct. [1913 Webster] Vasiform tissue (Bot.), tissue containing vessels, or ducts. [1913 Webster] adipose tissue (wn) adipose tissue n 1: a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold" [syn: adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue] animal tissue (wn) animal tissue n 1: the tissue in the bodies of animals areolar tissue (wn) areolar tissue n 1: fibrous connective tissue with the fibers arranged in a mesh or net bathroom tissue (wn) bathroom tissue n 1: a soft thin absorbent paper for use in toilets [syn: toilet tissue, toilet paper, bathroom tissue] connective tissue (wn) connective tissue n 1: tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments elastic tissue (wn) elastic tissue n 1: connective tissue consisting chiefly of elastic fibers found in the dermis of the skin and in the walls of veins and arteries and in some tendons and ligaments embryonic tissue (wn) embryonic tissue n 1: tissue in an embryo epithelial tissue (wn) epithelial tissue n 1: membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body [syn: epithelium, epithelial tissue] erectile tissue (wn) erectile tissue n 1: vascular tissue capable of filling with blood and becoming rigid facial tissue (wn) facial tissue n 1: tissue paper suitable for use on the face fatty tissue (wn) fatty tissue n 1: a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold" [syn: adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue] fibrous tissue (wn) fibrous tissue n 1: tissue consisting of or containing fibers in both animals and plants granulation tissue (wn) granulation tissue n 1: new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process [syn: granulation, granulation tissue] interstitial tissue (wn) interstitial tissue n 1: tissue between the cells of a structure or part in plant or animal lymphatic tissue (wn) lymphatic tissue n 1: tissue making up the lymphatic system [syn: {lymphatic tissue}, lymphoid tissue] lymphoid tissue (wn) lymphoid tissue n 1: tissue making up the lymphatic system [syn: {lymphatic tissue}, lymphoid tissue] muscular tissue (wn) muscular tissue n 1: animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells [syn: muscle, muscular tissue] nerve tissue (wn) nerve tissue n 1: tissue composed of neurons [syn: nervous tissue, {nerve tissue}] nervous tissue (wn) nervous tissue n 1: tissue composed of neurons [syn: nervous tissue, {nerve tissue}] osseous tissue (wn) osseous tissue n 1: the porous calcified substance from which bones are made [syn: bone, osseous tissue] plant tissue (wn) plant tissue n 1: the tissue of a plant