tissue
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Kate has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which affects connective tissue and was admitted to Hull Royal Infirmary with a suspected intestinal failure.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Researchers found that the modified immune cells also reached and eliminated disease-promoting B cells in deeper locations, including the bone marrow, lymph nodes, and joint tissue.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
HSD can also cause gastrointestinal symptoms because the connective tissue within the digestive system is stretchier.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The internet supplied the connecting tissue because the government had supplied the blank space.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
She grabbed a book from my shelf, placed a tissue over it, and pulled my right hand on top of it.
From "Keep It Together, Keiko Carter" by Debbi Michiko Florence
Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease that develops when bacteria accumulate below the gumline and damage the tissues that hold teeth in place.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
The two men spent 80 consecutive hours holed up and writing “on printer sheets, on tissues, on toilet paper,” according to Mr. St. George.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Due to lax collagen between connective tissues, muscles have to work harder to keep joints stable, leading to fatigue and pain, as well as clumsiness.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
The preserved tissues date back more than 450 million years, making them far older than the earliest dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
Her eyes are puffy and pink, and there’s balled-up tissues on the nightstand and scattered around her pillow.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
In rough magnificence array'd, When ancient Chivalry display'd The pomp of her heroic games, And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled, at the clarion's call, In some proud castle's high arch'd hall.
From Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
National industry did all in its power to surmount this ignominious condition; she specially turned her attention to the manufacture of silks and of stuffs tissued with gold and silver.
From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
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
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
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
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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