tegument
/ˈtɛɡjʊm(ə)nt
/noun chiefly Zoology
The integument of an organism, especially a parasitic flatworm.The labellum indument resembles, although superficially, that of the hairy areas of an insect tegument....
- A microvillous tegument was appreciated overlying a thin layer of smooth muscle and a single row of stromal cells.
- The similarity of the bacterial floras associated with the apical surface of the parasite tegument and the intestine of the host should be noted.
Derivatives
tegumental
- The rim of oral sucker was interrupted laterally by tegumental spines extending into the inner surface.
- The currents of these ion-channels may cross the double bilayer of the outer tegumental membrane.
- After thawing, the outer tegumental membrane complex was removed by the method of Roberts et al..
tegumentary
- Other known physiological effects observed for this substance include cardioacceleration in cockroaches and migration of tegumentary and retinal distal pigments in crustaceans.
- In four out of eight cultures from human cases of tegumentary leishmaniasis performed, the ethiological agent of ‘espundia’ was isolated.
- Lesions in tegumentary leishmaniasis have a variable duration and are notoriously heterogeneous, even during the early stages of the disease.
Origin
Late Middle English (in the general sense 'a covering or coating'): from Latin tegumentum, from tegere 'to cover'.