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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1016 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser,
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Lat. texere, to weave)
  , properly the name of a
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fine textile fabric interwoven with gold and
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silver threads, hence used of any delicate or gauzy fabric (see GOLD AND SILVER THREAD) . It Was also early applied, as in French, to a ribbon, fillet or various forms of
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woven ligaments . In biology the word is of general use for an aggregate of cells forming a texture or fabric; in animal anatomy it is thus applied to the
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primary layers of which the parts are composed, and named by some qualifying word denoting its substance or its use (see CONNECTIVE TISSUE and EPITHELIAL, ENDOTHELIAL AND GLANDULAR TISSUE) .

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