Definition of Integumentary

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the integument.

Exact synonyms: Integumental
Partainyms: Integument, Integument
Derivative terms: Integument, Integument

Definition of Integumentary

1. n. Belonging to, or composed of, integuments.

Definition of Integumentary

1. Adjective. of, related to, or composed of integuments ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Integumentary

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Integumentary

1. Pertaining to or composed of skin. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Integumentary

integrin PS2
integrin modulating factor 1
integrins
integrious
integrities
integrity
integrodifference
integrodifferential
integron
integrons
integropallial
integrous
integumation
integument
integumental
integumentary (current term)
integumentary pattern
integumentary patterns
integumentary system
integumentation
integuments
integumentum commune
intein
inteins
intellect
intellected
intellection
intellections
intellective
intellectively

Literary usage of Integumentary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker (1897)
"The integumentary musculature, on the other hand, lies entirely in the ... The action of the integumentary muscles is very different in different ..."

2. Class Book of Botany: Being an Introduction to the Study of the Vegetable by John Hutton Balfour (1852)
"The general integumentary covering of plants consists of cells, various, aggregated, and may be considered in connection with the 'elementary tissues. ..."

3. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1893)
"Since then I have continued my observations in order to ascertain whether the integumentary folds on the flexor aspects of the hand and foot of Anthropoid ..."

4. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1917)
"of such scales in front of the scutellum and the dark integumentary stripe is also absent. This is the form described by Theobald from the island of Antigua ..."

5. Tropical Nature, and Other Essays by Alfred Russel Wallace (1878)
"... Colours- Theory of Warning Colours—Theory of Sexual Colours—Colour as a means of Recognition—Colour proportionate to integumentary Development—Selection ..."

6. A System of surgery: theoretical and practical v.5 by Timothy Holmes (1870)
"integumentary HYPERTROPHY. LIPOMA NASI. In cases of acne rosacea of long standing and severe the integumentary structures of the nose sometimes irregularly ..."

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