tissuen.
/ˈtɪʃuː/, /ˈtɪsjuː/, /ˈtɪʃ(j)uː/, U.S. /ˈtɪʃu/ 1.
a. A rich kind of cloth, often interwoven with gold or silver. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > interwoven with metallic thread
tissue?a1366
cypress14..
cloth of goldc1405
imperialc1435
gold webc1475
tinsel1523
cloth of silver1530
imperial clotha1553
tinsey1685
lama1818
lamé1922
kain songket1949
?a1366 Romaunt Rose 1104 The barres were of gold ful fyne, Upon a tyssu of satyne.
1429 in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum II. 222 Cum tribus capis choralibus de panno Tyssewys vulgariter nuncupato.
1501 in Calr. Doc. rel. Scotl. (1888) 336 A gown of tawny cloth of gold of tisshue.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xvi. 61 With cloth of tyssue in the rychest maner The walles were hanged.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xvi. sig. e.viiiv Fresshely embrodred, in ryche tysshewe and fyne.
1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng (longer ed.) f. cxlvi The quene..clothed in a riche mantell of tissue.
1562 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 114 Cloth of Silver purple tysshiew.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. viii. 82 Girded with a large girdle of Tissue, or of silke and golde.
1646 R. Crashaw Steps to Temple 134 Something more than Taffata or Tissew can.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 4 Good bed Chambers and well furnished velvet damaske and tissue.
1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life I. 130 A dress for me to play the character of Cl[e]opatra,..the ground of it was silver tissue.
b. Applied to various rich or fine stuffs of delicate or gauzy texture.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > thin, light, or delicate
valencec1381
Paris crisp1400
rill1440
tuke1477
utter-fine1529
Worcester1551
cypress1577
borato1578
burat1588
quintain1674
tissue1732
zephyrine1820
summer weight1873
Palm Beach1913
sheer1934
1732 J. Swift Lady's Dressing Room 3 Array'd in Lace, Brocades and Tissues.
1769 Public Advertiser 2 June 1/3 Sale of Silks..Brocades, Tissues.
1821 J. Baillie W. Wallace in Metrical Legends liv Tissue of threaded gems is worn.
1910 Westm. Gaz. 12 Mar. 15/2 Tissues studded with jewels are lightly draped over satin.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric with specific qualities > [noun] > rich or costly > band of
tissuec1374
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > belt or sash > types of > made of specific material
tissuec1374
wampum belt1676
postilion-belt1773
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde ii. 590 (639) His helm..That by a tissew heng his bak byhynde.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) i. xciv. 51 The scrippe was of greene selk, and heeng bi a greene tissu.
c1440 Partonope 6726 That tyssew and bocle..all to peses brak.
1488 Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) 98/2 A tuscha of silk siluerit price v merkis.
1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 388 xj½ elne tisches to mend the bordoring of the Kingis sadill bordorit with tischeis.
1508 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1869) IV. 274 A gyrdill wt a golde tushwe.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. vii. 136 And quhair hir pap was for the speir cut away Of gold thairon was belt ane riche tischay.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. v. 133 Quhar as the wovin gyrdill or tysche Abufe his navill was beltit, as we se.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 405 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 107 Mony schene scheld With tuscheis of trast silk tichit to ye tre.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 629 Venus..cast aside her daintie jewels..and threw away that tissue and lovely girdle of hers.
3. Any woven fabric or stuff. In quot. 1850 transferred weaving.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > woven
webOE
webOE
wefta1398
stuff1462
tissue1565
weave1581
contexture1603
textile1626
texturea1656
woof1674
webbing1739
fabric1753
mail net1875
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving
webbinga1325
weaving1377
texture1447
endrapering1461
loom-work1598
contexture1649
textury1658
loom1678
woof1700
weavering1720
tissue1850
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Trilix,..tissue made of three threads of diuers colours.
1757 T. Gray Ode II i. iii, in Odes 15 They..weave with bloody hands the tissue of thy line.
1757 T. Gray Ode II ii. i, in Odes 15 Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race.
a1763 W. Shenstone Progress of Taste i. in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 263 Constant wear..turns the tissue into tatters.
1850 W. E. Gladstone Homer II. ii. 129 In the arts of tissue and embroidery.
1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. v. 155 Tissues of woven flax have been found in some of the Swiss lake-villages.
4. figurative. Something likened to a woven fabric, as being produced by the intertwining of separate elements; an intricate mass or interwoven series, a ‘fabric’, ‘network’, ‘web’ (of things abstract, most usually of a bad kind, as absurdities, errors, falsehoods, etc.). Also, the structure or contexture of such a ‘fabric’.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > [noun] > a structure > interwoven > of something
contexture1603
tissue1711
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 62. ¶6 Those little occasional Poems..are nothing else but a Tissue of Epigrams.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 180 The history of Europe,..a tissue of crimes, follies, and misfortunes.
1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) IV. 89 The hasty amendments..had so broken the tissue of the paragraph, as to [etc.].
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. ii. 108 The tissue of misrepresentations..woven round us.
1842 J. G. Whittier Raphael xvi The tissue of the Life to be We weave with colors all our own.
1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 107 He works it..into the tissue of the poems.
5. Biology. The substance, structure, or texture of which an animal or plant body, or any part or organ of it, is composed; esp. any one of the various structures, each consisting of an aggregation of similar cells or modifications of cells, which make up the organism.
a. in animals.The chief forms of tissue in the higher animals are the epithelial (incl. glandular), connective (incl. cartilaginous and osseous), muscular, and nervous tissues. (The term is sometimes extended to include the blood as a ‘fluid tissue’.)
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the world > life > biology > substance > [noun]
substancea1398
tissue1834
biomaterial1960
the world > life > the body > bodily substance > [noun]
loamc725
flesh and fellc1000
fleshtimbera1225
flesh and blooda1340
powderc1350
substancec1350
claya1400
paste1645
corporeity1647
muscle1819
tissue1834
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. i. 1/2 Every cellular, vascular, muscular Tissue.
1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 279 Chronic inflammation..of the pulmonary tissue.
1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 40 Materials..to supply the place of those that have been removed from the body in consequence of waste of tissue.
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. xiv. 818 The tissues of the teeth are..analogous to those of other parts.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. i. 41 The organic Tissues are three in number: 1st, cellular tissue; 2nd, muscular tissue; and 3rd, nervous tissue... Some writers admit other organic tissues.
1869 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 3) i. 11 Every such constituent of the body, as epidermis, cartilage, or muscle, is called a ‘tissue’.
1880 H. C. Bastian Brain 28 Nerve tissues are..divided into ‘grey’ and ‘white’ matter.
1889 St. G. Mivart Truth 149 The arteries, veins and heart are full of a fluid ‘tissue’—the blood.
b. in plants.The various forms of plant tissue may be generally reduced to two classes, typified by parenchyma and prosenchyma. In the higher plants there are three systems of tissues, the epidermal, fundamental, and fibro-vascular.
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the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue
substance1650
tissue1837
syntagma1882
tagma1885
1837 [implied in: P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 343 Plants..exhibiting..indications of such tissual and organic susceptibilities as are proper to their rank in the scale of being. (at tissual adj.)].
1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) x. 159 Tissue is called Woody Fibre when it is composed of slender tubes placed side by side.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 68 Every aggregate of cells which obeys a common law of growth..may be termed a Tissue.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 103 The relationship of the three systems of tissue may be observed..in..foliage-leaves.
c. generally; also figurative.
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1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith ii. §2. 114 The new chart must clothe the world with its living tissues.
1858 G. H. Lewes Sea-side Stud. 400 Histology is the doctrine of the tissues; and tissues are the webs out of which the organism is fabricated.
1872 W. Bagehot Physics & Politics 178 The germ might be foreign, but the tissue was native.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 16 Conversion of the cells into tissue.
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a. Short for tissue-paper n.The reference in the 18th–century quots. was probably to sizes of specially prepared tissue-paper (now spoken of as ‘printing paper’ and ‘printing tissue’), on which designs were printed from copper plates for transference to pottery-ware. This was specially taxed.
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society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > types of printing paper
newspaper1756
tissue1780
surface paper1851
pulp paper1863
India paper1875
onion skin1879
news1887
bâtonné1892
Bible paper1926
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > material for making paper > paper > [noun] > thin paper or tissue-paper
tissue-paper1777
tissue1780
silk paper1796
silver paper1800
pelure1887
Japanese tissue1900
washi1978
1780–1 Act 21 Geo. III c. 24 §2 For every Bundle of Paper made in Great Britain for Printing, called Demy Tissue. For every Bundle of Paper called Crown Tissue.
1797 P. A. Nemnich Waaren-Lexikon i. 30/1 Die Englischen Papier~sorten... Crown, single, inferior, double, double inferior, and tissue;..Demy single, inferior, plate, short, tissue, writing [etc.].
1880 J. Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 32 (heading) Lilac tissue, deep shade.
1937 E. J. Labarre Dict. Paper 244/1 Tissue or tissue-papers are fine, thin, soft papers made of strong materials such as rag and hemp fibres... They are usually unsized, nearly transparent, chiefly used for wrapping and protective purposes.
1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 309 Carefully trim the print, with its attached tissue.
b. Horse Racing. A sheet of paper showing the ‘form’ of the horses competing in a race (see also quot. 1866).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > equipment > [noun] > printed record of past performance
tissue1866
racing form1895
form sheet1911
1866 Daily Tel. 24 Feb. 3/4 A ‘tissue’ is a slip of paper written for a telegraph company, showing results of betting transactions and accounts.
1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 59 No one knew how he achieved the stern task of living, but his name was vaguely associated with racing tissues.
1972 G. F. Newman You Nice Bastard ii. 83 Manso quickly got a bet on the fifth and sixth, and studied the tissue for the previous races.
c. A piece of soft absorbent paper used as a handkerchief, for drying or cleaning the skin, etc. Hence as v. transitive, to wipe with a tissue.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > tissue for cleaning skin, etc.
toilet paper1809
Kleenex1925
face tissue1926
tissue1929
facial tissue1930
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > clean by wiping [verb (transitive)] > wipe with a tissue
tissue1983
1929 Punch 10 Apr. p. xv. (advt.) Two or three times every day you should massage the hands with Ponds' Cold Cream, removing the cream after a minute or so with a Ponds' Cleansing Tissue.
1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart iii. i. 334 Anna wiped complexion milk off her fingers on to a tissue.
1958 M. Dickens Man Overboard x. 162 Ben grabbed a make-up stick and scrawled it [sc. an address] on the side of a box of tissues.
1960 Woman 25 Apr. 2/1 Pond's Cold Cream..goes on moisturising long after you tissue it off.
1976 M. Gordon & G. Gordon Ordeal (1977) 142 Sniffling, he asked Penny for a tissue.
1981 Economist 8 Aug. 79/1 The battle against the common cold may not be over... So do not throw away your tissues yet.
1983 Harrods Mag. Spring–Summer 72 Yellow Herbal Astringent is sprayed on..then tissued dry.
d. A cigarette paper. Australian and New Zealand slang.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette > tobacco and paper for rolling > cigarette paper
cigarette paper1860
Zig-Zag1909
papera1911
Rizla1916
Rizla paper1939
rolling paper1943
tissue1952
skin1967
1952 Here & Now (N.Z.) Jan. 32/2 Better go and see if the parole-jumper in Number 8 has got any tissues left.
1966 G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. viii. 164 In Hobart the [expression]..‘Got a tissue, mate?’ [is commoner than elsewhere]. A tissue is a cigarette paper.
7. Photography. Paper made in strips coated with a film of gelatine containing a pigment, used in carbon printing.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > paper
printing paper1593
photographic paper1840
gelatin paper1851
surface paper1851
print paper1858
Saxe paper1864
tissue1873
carbon paper1878
bromide paper1885
print-out paper1893
mezzotype1894
printing out paper1895
silver paper1898
gaslight paper1899
multigrade1940
contact sheet1959
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 267/1 This carbon tissue consists of a layer of gelatine containing the carbon or other permanent pigment spread on paper.
1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. xxiv. 165 Many improvements in the manufacture of the tissue have been made, and the different substances added to the gelatine are only partially known to the public.
1891 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 80 Tissue can be obtained from London and sensitized as required for use.
8. Collector's name for two species of moth, Scotosia ( Triphosa) dubitata and cervinata.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types > miscellaneous types
high-flyer?1749
nonpareil1749
porphyry1819
satin carpet1819
satin pygmy1828
scopolian1829
chalk carpet1832
sieve lackey1832
sprawler1832
tissue1832
treble bar1832
treble gold stripe1832
vesper-beauty1832
viburnian1832
yellowhead1832
flame carpet1862
sting-moth1863
lilac moth1868
luna-moth1869
melon-caterpillar1884
wood-nymph1885
unicorn-moth1891
geometer moth1897
the suspected1908
porina1929
tomato pinworm1931
mopane worm1966
1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 128 The Tissue (T[riphosa] dubitata, Stephens)... Wings..brown, shining; first pair having a tinge of purple.
1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 128 The Scarce Tissue (T. cervinata, Stephens).
Compounds
C1. attributive. Made or consisting of tissue (sense 1); in quot. a1640, dressed in tissue.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > interwoven with metallic thread
tissue1480
tinsel1502
tinselled1532
tissued1584
songket1909
1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 149 A long gowne of grene velvet upon velvet tisshue cloth of gold.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2143/2 The Vicechauncellour hauing on a tyshew cope.
a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qqqqq3/2 Smooth City fools, or tisseu Cavaliers.
1704 London Gaz. No. 3981/4 A rich Silver Tishia Gown.
1708 Brit. Apollo 16–18 June Tishew Sleves.
1796 M. J. Holroyd in Girlhood M. J. H. (1896) 373 Milady wore..a Gold Tissue..Train.
C2. General attributive, chiefly in sense 5; see also tissue-paper n.
tissue-building n.
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1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 308 The processes of digestion,..assimilation, and tissue-building.
tissue-cell n.
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1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 88 The pulmonary pigment..may be seen..within the connective tissue-cells.
tissue-change n.
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1873 T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. & Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) 24 The increased tissue-change which accompanies acute febrile diseases.
tissue-death n.
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1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 213 It is quite possible that a trace of albumose might thus be formed after tissue-death.
tissue-dwelling n.
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1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xxviii. 443 The tissue-dwelling parasites which cause relapses [in malaria] are not affected.
1974 Ciba Symp. 20 309 Few drugs have any significant action against its tissue-dwelling amastigotes.
tissue-element n.
tissue-form n.
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1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 78 In this manner arise in the higher plants..systems of tissue-forms, which may be designated simply as Systems of Tissue.
tissue-former n.
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1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) vi. 139 Proteids are tissue-formers.
tissue-forming n.
tissue-growth n.
tissue-mass n.
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1911 F. O. Bower Plant-life 84 The large tissue-masses of the plant.
tissue-product n.
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1866 W. Odling Lect. Animal Chem. 1 Recent advances in chemistry of tissue-products.
tissue-specific n.
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1962 Sci. Survey 3 224 This type of change may be associated with the changes in tissue-specific antigens.
tissue-specificity n.
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1932 J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth vi. iv. 177 The tissue-specificity is apparently the same..in both sexes.
tissue-system n.
tissue-tension n.
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1911 J. A. Thomson Biol. Seasons iii. 275 A sudden release of certain tissue-tensions.
tissue-transformation n.
tissue-unit n.
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1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. i. 33 The name [cell] was transferred to the living tissue-units of plants.
C3.
tissue-bank n. [bank n.3 6c] a place where a supply of human or animal tissue for grafting is stored.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > apparatus > [noun] > for storing or containing
boat1847
collecting box1857
moist chamber1869
Pasteur flask1869
plate1886
Petri dish1892
Pasteur pipette1899
Stender dish1900
straw1966
tissue-bank1968
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > other spec.
peltry?c1475
apple loft1569
root cellar1767
cake house1789
bottle store1829
nitre-tank1877
blood bank1936
eye bank1938
tissue-bank1968
1968 Punch 14 Feb. 239 Donald Pleasence plays the night attendant at a central tissue-bank in Montreal... A stupid, illiterate man with inexplicable operatic aspirations, he thinks that if he can only get the right larynx he will be able to sing.
1971 New Scientist 8 Apr. 101/2 Tissue Banks where human and animal tissues could be readily obtained.
tissue culture n. a culture [culture n. 3] of cells derived from tissue; the practice of culturing such cells.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > material > [noun] > culture or medium
culture1880
blood culture1881
cultivation1881
culture medium1883
pure culture1883
agar1885
broth1885
subculture1885
tube-culture1886
bouillon1887
stab-culture1889
streak culture1892
blood agar1893
microculture1893
shake culture1894
streak plate1895
broth culture1897
slant1899
plating1900
stock culture1903
touch preparation1908
tissue culture1912
plaque1924
slope1925
agar-agar1929
isolate1931
MacConkey1938
auxanogram1949
lawn1951
monolayer1952
replica plate1952
1912 Anat. Rec. 6 91 The character of the growth in tissue cultures varies primarily with the kind of tissue used.
1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 283 A fundamental experiment from which sprang the whole sub-science of tissue-culture.
1955 Sci. News 36 8 It is interesting to compare the events in regeneration with what happens in tissue culture.
1975 Daily Tel. 8 Sept. 8/4 At present, if a dog or other animal is sick or dies it takes several days to grow the virus in tissue culture to be sure rabies is to blame.
tissue fluid n. extracellular fluid which bathes the cells of most tissues, arriving via blood capillaries and being removed via the lymphatic vessels.
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the world > life > biology > substance > [noun] > fluids
humour1340
humiditiesc1400
suck1560
succus1771
tissue fluid1900
1900 E. H. Starling Elem. Human Physiol. (ed. 4) vii. 292 This absorption depends on the small proportion of proteid contained in the tissue-fluid as compared with the blood-plasma.
1954 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 12) i. 4 It [sc. the cornea] has no blood vessels with the exception of minute arcades, about 1 mm. broad, at the limbus so that it is dependent for its nourishment upon the diffusion of tissue-fluid from the vessels at its periphery and materials from the aqueous humour.
1976 D. Jensen Princ. Physiol. ix. 524/1 The interstitial (or tissue) fluid forms the actual internal environment of the body.
tissue-lymph n. lymph derived from the tissues (not directly from the blood).
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the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > lymph > [noun]
lymph1725
tissue-lymph1903
1903 G. Oliver in Lancet 3 Oct. 942/1 Physiologists are divided as to whether tissue lymph is a pressure product..or a secretion.
tissue-secretion n. see quots. 1848, 1861.
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the world > life > biology > substance > [noun] > tissue-secretion
tissue-secretion1848
1848 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes (new ed.) iv. 51 Secretions formed within the animal which are mostly calcareous..may be called tissue-secretions... These secretions take place from the tissues of the sides and the base of the polyp.
1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 153 The sclerobasic corallum is by Mr. Dana termed ‘foot secretion’; the sclerodermic, ‘tissue secretion’.
tissue type n. Medicine a class of tissues all of which are immunologically compatible with each other.
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the world > life > biology > substance > [noun] > tissue type
tissue type1967
1967 Science 25 Aug. 942/1 The first two explanations should be tested more critically if applied to a single tissue type.
1969 Private Eye 6 June 3/2 Experts from Guys Hospital came to tissue type her to see if she was a ‘suitable donor’.
1971 H. Festenstein et al. in R. Y. Calne Clin. Organ Transplantation vi. 158 It may be possible to tissue type potential recipients from several hospitals in one central laboratory.
1973 Daily Tel. 27 Feb. 2/7 Simon has a tissue type shared by only one in 50,000 of the population.
tissue-type v. (transitive) to determine the tissue type of.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [verb (transitive)] > using stains or dyes
overstain1883
plate1892
counterstain1895
osmicate1905
polychrome1924
prime1943
sham-operate1963
tissue-type1968
perifuse1969
1968 Times 7 Nov. 3/2 In a year or two it might be possible to store human hearts for a period of hours; this would enable donors and recipients to be tissue-typed on an international basis.
tissue typing n. Medicine the assessment of tissue in order to predict its immunological compatibility with other tissue, esp. prior to transplantation.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] > tissue typing
tissue typing1965
1965 Israel Jrnl. Med. Sci. 1 498/2 This seems..a hopeful avenue toward the goal of tissue typing.
1967 Observer 26 Nov. 1/5 Research on tissue-typing has reached the stage where tissues from different people can be matched (just as blood can be matched) so that grafts will ‘take’ without resort to drugs to suppress the immune mechanism.
1971 New Scientist 8 July 63/2 One or two of these cases, particularly when recipient and donor have been well ‘matched’ by tissue typing, have been spectacularly successful.
Derivatives
tissue-like adj.
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1892 J. Murdoch From Austral. & Japan ii. 140 He..wondered..what the soft, flimsy, tissue-like paper was.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tissuev.
Now rare.
a. transitive. To make into a tissue, to weave; spec. to weave with gold or silver threads, to work or form in tissue; to adorn or cover with tissue (cf. tissue n. 1a).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > weave in > interweave with gold or silver thread
tissue1483
tinsel1594
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > weave fabric
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weba1325
warpc1430
loom?1549
tissuea1851
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 237/1 A whyte mantel In whiche there were litil ouches and crosses of gold tissued.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. ccxlix/2 To tyssue the sayd roddes & palmes to make mattes.
c1547 MS Harl. 1419 B f. 535v Clothe of silver tissued withe flowres of golde and silver.
1562 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 114 Gold tysshewed with silver.
a1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1650) 25 The Charriot was covered with cloth of Gold tissued upon Blew.
a1851 D. M. Moir Birth Flowers vi Her vesture seem'd as from the blooms Of all the circling seasons wove,..And tissued with the woof of Love.
b. figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)]
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feignc1340
clothe1393
colourc1400
gloze1430
pretence1548
whiten1583
maska1593
vizard1628
tissuea1639
to whiten up1746
act1790
veneer1875
histrionize1876
window dress1913
a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) 104 To Countenance any Great action; and then..to Tissue upon it some Pretence or other.
1800 T. Moore tr. Anacreon Odes xlvi. 14 Cultured field, and winding stream, Are sweetly tissued by his beam.
1905 Athenæum 6 May 558/2 ‘Dream and Reality’ is tissued from a series of such metaphors.
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