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tissue

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








NOUN
tendon
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A study in mice now suggests that the drug may improve metabolism directly by activating brown adipose tissue, a form of fat that specializes in using energy.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

At the time of the interview, Timpf had recently undergone reconstructive surgery, replacing tissue expanders placed during the masectomy with breast implants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Once surgeons started using robots for more of the precision work of cutting and separating tissue, though, Beane found residents got 10 to 20 times less hands-on practice during such procedures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

However, previous efforts to activate brown adipose tissue with drugs have often been unsuccessful because of unwanted side effects, particularly those affecting the heart.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Now she lets out a sob, and Gloria reaches into her enormous purse and hands her a tissue.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish

“You’ve got to break the tissues down so it becomes fork-tender,” says Norm Langer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Soft tissues such as blood vessels usually disappear during decomposition long before fossilization is complete.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

In .35% of patients, the injections can cause skin necrosis, the death of cells and body tissues, symptoms of which include pain, discoloration and loss of sensitivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Esophagitis is inflammation of the tissues that line the esophagus, per the Mayo Clinic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

We are marked as self by the chemicals we leave beneath the soles of our shoes, as unmistakably and individually as by the membrane surface antigens detectable in homografts of our tissues.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

The higher guests approach a room of state, Where tissued couches all around were set Labour’d with art; o’er ivory tables thrown, Embroider’d carpets fell in folds adown.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

So saying, he number’d carefully the gold, The vases, tripods bright, and tissued robes, 260 But nothing miss’d of all.

From The Odyssey of Homer by William Cowper

What idea is conveyed to your mind by the expressions, "orb'd in a rainbow," "like glories wearing," "thron'd in celestiall sheen," "the tissued clouds down stearing," etc.?

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

Does she steer the tissued clouds "with radiant feet," or does she steer herself down the tissued clouds?

From Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer by James Baldwin

Winged momentarily on bits of tissued flame, threaded with blood, the bats had flickered a secret to her.

From The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence




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