n. 薄的织物, 薄纱, 棉纸, 组织, 一套

[化] 组织

[医] 组织

Tissue \Tis"sue\, n. [F. tissu, fr. tissu, p. p. of tisser,
tistre, to weave, fr. L. texere. See {Text}.]
1. A woven fabric.

2. A fine transparent silk stuff, used for veils, etc.;
specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver
threads, or embossed with figures.

A robe of tissue, stiff with golden wire. --Dryden.

In their glittering tissues bear emblazed
Holy memorials. --Milton.

3. (Biol.) One of the elementary materials or fibres, having
a uniform structure and a specialized function, of which
ordinary animals and plants are composed; a texture; as,
epithelial tissue; connective tissue.

Note: The term tissue is also often applied in a wider sense
to all the materials or elementary tissues, differing
in structure and function, which go to make up an
organ; as, vascular tissue, tegumentary tissue, etc.

4. Fig.: Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected
series; as, a tissue of forgeries, or of falsehood.

Unwilling to leave the dry bones of Agnosticism
wholly unclothed with any living tissue of religious
emotion. --A. J.
Balfour.

{Tissue paper}, very thin, gauzelike paper, used for
protecting engravings in books, for wrapping up delicate
articles, etc.


Tissue \Tis"sue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tissued}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Tissuing}.]
To form tissue of; to interweave.

Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. --Bacon.