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tissue

[tish-oo, tis-yoo] / ˈtɪʃ u, ˈtɪs yu /








NOUN
tendon
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Tissue samples are easier to obtain from some demographic groups than others, resulting in imbalanced datasets.

From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025

The Human Tissue Act only bans "commercial dealings" of human tissue in the context of medical transplantation, rather than sale as artefacts.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024

Others fear for the future of the Australian Biological Tissue Collection, the museum’s trove of frozen tissues, which has been key to efforts to describe and classify species.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 5, 2024

Such handling of organs was ruled over by the 1961 Human Tissue Act.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024

On a separate page he wrote, “Henrietta Lacks .. . Biopsy of cervical tissue . .. Tissue given to Dr. George Gey.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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