When all the fields around lay bound and hoar, Beneath a thick integument of snow. From LearnThat.org. [Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. writer.]
"I notice you are losing your outer integument in spots.". From Wordnik.com. [Neutron Star]
Jambers was not quite sure what "integument" was, but she thanked God she had never had it in her family. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
Do you see the seagull dead in his integument of tar?. From Wordnik.com. [The Fragile Sea] Reference
He stuck a half-eagle into the tarry integument of my person. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
Gas exchange occurs mainly through the integument by diffusion. From Wordnik.com. [Arthropoda] Reference
"We all work, Carl," he explained, his voice a scaly integument. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
The boundaries of the space become a second and greater integument. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Those of the surface or integument of the body, with its appendages. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
The subcutaneous adipose tissue and common integument cover these latter. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Its freedom from causing great shrinking or shrivelling of the integument. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Their black leathern integument is only the mask of their servile condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
If it was connected in any way to the animal integument, it ignored the connexions. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Human]
But beneath the pale integument of his skin all his muscles tightened and his nerves sang. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
The internal ear is formed by an involution of the integument, and not by an outgrowth of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
In some cases the embryo or the embryo-sac sends out suckers into the nucellus and ovular integument. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1] Reference
As the green flames lifted I could see the oily gleam of his integument and the brightness of his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
Round these is a skin-like integument, because the weakness of the vessels needs protection and shelter. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
The latter fought back viciously, but could make no impression upon the rubbery integument of the former. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
The outer integument was often worn away, exposing the texture of the skin, which was still of strong fibre. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
Unite by openings; connect or join so as to become or make continuous, as fibers; blend, unite intimately integument. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
This fills up the whole seed which is surrounded by the hardened shell derived from the integument and wall of the ovule. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
He took my order without showing me any leather, and I could feel his eyes penetrating the inferior integument of my foot. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories for English Courses] Reference
Hence fishes, because they are scaly, and crustacea, because they are of an earthy nature, lay eggs with a hard integument. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
Replacing of a displaced part, or the reducing of a hernia, by manipulation without cutting. tegument (tegumentary, integument). From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The bison know a lot about Longfellow and wisteria and patrimony, the piscine nuance of the clouds, God's topological integument. From Wordnik.com. [The Bison's Alimony] Reference
At the rate he was sacrificing personal integument on this case, it wouldn't take long before he replaced his entire outer layer. From Wordnik.com. [The Mocking Program]
We have given above the reason why its legs are not turned in under, that is the hardness and shell-like character of its integument. From Wordnik.com. [On the Gait of Animals] Reference
The common integument or first layer of the inguino-femoral region being removed, we expose the superficial fascia constituting the second layer. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
Whilst traversing the femoral triangle, the vessels enclosed in their proper sheath are covered by the fascia lata, adipose membrane, and integument. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
As to the details of features, these were altogether subordinate, and as devoid of physiognomical meaning as the dull integument which encompassed them. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Water is a universal solvent and therapeutic agent and is therefore indispensable in the cleansing and purifying of the integument and mucous membrane of the body. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
The neck of the sac is then to be exposed by an incision carried through the integument across the upper end of the first incision, and parallel with Poupart's ligament. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
The integument of the body and that of the mucous membrane are similar in structure, yet whoever had a fear of producing dryness of the skin by much application of water?. From Wordnik.com. [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference
When the integument with the subcutaneous adipose tissue is removed from the inguino-femoral region, we expose that common investing membrane called the superficial fascia. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
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