OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4021

tissue

/ˈtɪs.juː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tejido
Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
Madame Legarde, the "glass of fashion and the nurse of form," (alias the most fashionable of milliners,) has comfortably assured me, "that my figure has great merit, and only requi…
The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits…
clínex • pañuelo • pañuelo de papel
A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
tejido
A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to do a specific job.
What they lack is outermost brain tissue that, at least in humans, prompts awareness and interpretation.
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