tissue
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The life I pictured appeared in View-Master slides, each image crisp and complete, with all the inconvenient connective tissue outsourced.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Rather than rebuilding healthy muscle, the damaged areas accumulated fat and scar tissue.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
Instead, the increase in BMI seen between about ages 5 and 7 appears to be caused by the growth of muscle and other lean tissue.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
A diagnosis of CTE requires evidence of degeneration of brain tissue that can only be seen during an autopsy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Audrey held her wet tissue to her face, waiting for my answer.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
Researchers examined several species of both plants and tracked thousands of genes, looking for those that became "switched on" in the right tissues at the right moment.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Court staff escorted them in with boxes of tissues, paper cups of water and a kind hand on their arms.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Awuche was eventually diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, which affects the body's connective tissues.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The team examined where these cells appear in the body, how they function, and how they connect with other tissues and nerves.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
When I’m finally cried out, he gets up to give me a box of tissues and waits as I blow my nose.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
Yea, everything ran with sunshine, as we are full of blood, and plants are tissued from green-gold, glistening sap.
From The Trespasser by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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 Disraeli, Isaac
And the Chamberlain and the high officers of State came in and made obeisance to him, and the pages brought him the robe of tissued gold, and set the crown and the sceptre before him.
From A House of Pomegranates by Wilde, Oscar
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 Baldwin, James
Meanwhile we "cornered" and "tissued" and "laced" and "labeled."
From The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself by Richardson, Dorothy
Vocabulary lists containing tissue
Cell Biology - Middle School
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Cell Biology - High School
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Animals (Zoology) - Introductory
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