tissue

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[countableC]DHC a piece of soft thin paper, used especially for blowing your nose on 纸巾，面巾纸

a box of tissues

一盒面巾纸

2. [uncountableU] (also tissue paper)D light thin paper used for wrapping, packing etc 〔包装等用的〕薄纸，绵纸

3 [uncountableU]HB the material forming animal or plant cells 〔动植物的〕组织

lung/brain etc tissue 肺/脑等组织

→4 See picture of 见图 HUMAN 1

4. a tissue of lies British EnglishBrEUNTRUE a story or account that is completely untrue 一派谎言

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a tissue of lies• The Springall business was hidden by a tissue of lies.

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tissue• His estranged wife, Martha, dabbed at her eyes with a tissue and later hugged jurors in the hallway.• Biopsy tissues were fixed in buffered formalin and processed routinely through paraffin wax, ensuring optimal orientation at the embedding stage.• Meanwhile, studies published in the Western Journal of Medicine found no evidence linking implants with connective tissue diseases.• Femfresh are individually wrapped, mildly fragrant, moist tissues.• The stairs were brushed, but pocked with scraps of eggshell and solidified tissues.• Changes consisted in the tissue becoming larger or smaller, thicker or thinner, more or less refractive.• A day later, the tissue was inserted between stomach muscles, just above the bellybutton, where blood supply is plentiful.• The Laboulbeniales are ectoparasites - most of their tissue remains outside the host - and only superficially penetrate into the host.

lung/brain etc tissue• Over years, the prions relentlessly multiply, clumping together in brain tissue until the damage becomes apparent.• Normal lung tissue and that from patients with focal fibrosis expressed very little ET-1.• A biopsy of brain tissue detected the presence of toxoplasmosis, which is relatively harmless in people with normally functioning immune systems.• So small volumes of lung tissue are exposed to high doses of alpha radiation.• But once converted into prions, they turn deadly, destroying the brain tissue.• More recently reductions in two other brain peptides, cholecystokinin and somatostatin have also been described in the brain tissue of schizophrenics.• To be sure, scientists have created disease by inoculating animals with brain tissue from infected animals.

Origin tissue

(1300-1400) Old French tissu “fine cloth”, from tistre “to weave”, from Latin texere; → TEXT

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