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Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.

r Stimulus. -- Heterologous tumor (Med.), a tumor differing in structure from the normal tissues of the body.

Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone. Haeckel.

The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; -- the opposite of histolysis.

Tissue-producing; connected with the formation and development of the organic tissues.

One who describes organic tissues; an histologist.

A description of, or treatise on, organic tissues.

Resembling the normal tissues; as, histoid tumors.

Pertaining to histology, or to the microscopic structure of the tissues of living organisms. -- His`to*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

gical science, which treats of the minute (microscopic) structure of animal and vegetable tissues; -- called also histiology.

The decay and dissolution of the organic tissues and of the blood.

Of or pertaining to histolysis, or the degeneration of tissues.

The science which treats of the laws relating to organic tissues, their formation, development, functions, etc.

The dissection of organic tissues.

The formation of homologous tissues.

pellucid fluid, found in various parts of the bodies of animals, but unconnected with the tissues. It is usually formed by parasitic worms, esp. by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Coenurus. See these words in the Vocabulary. Hydatid of Morgagni (Anat.), one of the small pedunculated bodies found between the testi…

The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.

A layer of tissue beneath the epidermis in plants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.

nthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin.

n incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas. Incombustible cloth, a tissue of amianthus or asbestus; also, a fabric imbued with an incombustible substance. -- In`com*bus"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*bus"ti*bly, adv.