After all what is this mortal tegument but a shell which a man sloughs off in eternal evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane of the Green Van] 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 outer tegument of the ovule, according to Griffith, is a leaf united along its margins, but always more or less open at its apex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Under this tegument is found a very thin, colorless membrane, which, with the testa or episperm, forms two per cent. of the weight of the wheat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference

Every variation was observed, generally the more leafy the outer tegument the greater was the degree of straightness of the funicle, and the abortion of the nucleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

No. 4 represents the endocarp, or last tegument of the berry; the sarcocarp, which should be found between the numbers 2 and 3, no longer exists, having been absorbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference

It was incredibly thick, dry, pliable; filled minutely with cells of a liquid-gaseous something which she knew to be a more perfect insulator even than the fibres of the tegument itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Lens]

Certainly Nature, foreseeing the cruel usage which this useful servant to man should receive at man's hand, did prudently in furnishing him with a tegument impervious to ordinary stripes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for ‘divine and human lore,’ when advanced into his sixty-fifth year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference

The second tegument of the almonds is membranaceous, and of a brown-yellow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

The worm's body covering consists of a thick tegument which protects it from the digestive.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

They are developed as tubercles or folds in the tegument, and are homologous with the legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

The tapeworm stays in the small intestine of its host for its entire adult life protected by a thick tegument.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Cytochemical and ultrastructural characteristics of the tegument of Tchercovilepis crabei and Tchercovilepis setigera.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

The first tegument is osseous or ligneous, triangular, tuberculated on its exterior surface, and of the colour of cinnamon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference

It is encased in a thin fibrous tegument, which, when removed, exposes an interior of white pulpy substance, much like a turnip in taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference

They develope from three cell layers (from outside to inside): epidermis, mesoderm, and the gastroderm, with a thick tegument protecting them from the host's digestive jucies.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

This amount of UV irradiation has previously been shown to prevent viral transcription and replication without inactivating the function of a representative tegument protein, VP16.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

On the contrary, the tegument is frequently left entirely intact, especially when the injury follows infectious diseases or occurs during light exercise after long periods of rest in the stable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

His whole face seemed to have been pinched and hammered together, so that it looked like a mask of pale bronze -- a death mask, for it was hard to believe that blood ran below that dry tegument.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

Our results demonstrate that during a productive HSV-1 infection the vhs protein carried in the tegument can inhibit the early innate immune response in both human and mouse monocyte-derived cDCs.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The fruit, which somewhat resembles a pear, has a rough tegument covered with minute prickles, which instantly enter the hand which touches them, however slightly, and are very difficult to extract.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

The part thus selected is peculiarly susceptible, Providence having made it alive to the least nibble; it is situated just above the hip-joint, it is protected by a tegument of exquisite fibre, vulgarly called.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference

In any of these situations it swells, and in the course of a week or ten days bursts its tegument, from which it is afterwards carefully separated by drying in the sun, rubbing between the hands, and winnowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants] Reference

The innermost tegument is a mantle of cloth, like the preceding, but furnished with large brown feathers, arranged and fashioned with great art, so as to be capable of guarding the living wearer from wet and cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians] Reference

Vhs is also present in the tegument and thus immediately functional following virion uncoating de novo synthesized vhs is thought to be partially compromised as a result of its association with another viral protein, VP16.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for 'divine and human lore,' when advanced into his sixty-fifth year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776] Reference

"The innermost tegument is a mantle of cloth like the preceding, but furnished with large brown feathers arranged and fastened with great art so as to be capable of guarding the living wearer from wet and cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians] Reference

No tegument, no pelt to help them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: Timothy by Verlyn Klinkenborg] Reference

The worm's body covering consists of a thick tegument which protects it from the digestive jucies of its host. (.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The worm's body covering consists of a thick tegument which protects it from the digestive juices of its host. (.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

10. tegument.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference