Definition of Tissue layer

1. Noun. A pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Tissue Layer

tissue distribution
tissue donors
tissue embedding
tissue engineering
tissue expanders
tissue expansion
tissue extracts
tissue factor
tissue fixation
tissue fluid
tissue hormones
tissue inhibitor-of metalloproteinase-2
tissue inhibitor of-metalloproteinase-3
tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases
tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinase
tissue layer (current term)
tissue lymph
tissue molding
tissue paper
tissue perfusion
tissue plasminogen activator
tissue polypeptide antigen
tissue preservation
tissue procollagenase
tissue registration
tissue respiration
tissue survival
tissue tension
tissue therapy
tissue thromboplastin inhibition time

Literary usage of Tissue layer

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

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"In the veins next above these in size (0.4 mm. in diameter), according to Kolliker, a connective tissue layer containing numerous muscle fibres circularly ..."

2. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences by California Academy of Sciences (1920)
"Larger vessels run beneath the denser connective tissue layer and run parallel with it, dipping into the scale. From these vessels branches are given off ..."

3. A Text-book of Histology: Arranged Upon an Embryological Basis by Frederic Thomas Lewis, Philipp Stöhr (1913)
"The tela submucosa (tela, tissue) is a connective tissue layer which contains many blood and lymphatic vessels, and the ganglionated plexus submucosus. ..."

4. Textbook of Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1905)
"A, Section of skin showing epithelium r, battement membrane b, and connective tissue layer r. Б allow« the papilla of the connective tissue layer к rowing ..."

5. Diseases of Women by Harry Sturgeon Crossen (1922)
"The wall of the vagina presents three layers — an external connective tissue layer, a middle muscular layer and an inner mucous layer. ..."

6. An Elementary Treatise on Human Anatomy by Joseph Leidy (1889)
"Following the fibro-connective-tissue layer there is a considerable layer of elastic tissue collected in longitudinal reticular bundles. ..."

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