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tunica::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | adventitia, tunic |
| Type of | membrane, tissue layer |
| Has types | albuginea |
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The Roman tunica was adopted from the Greek in the the 3rd Century BCE.
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Senators wore tunics with broad red stripes, called tunica laticlavia.
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Tunica County, in the Mississippi Delta, has long been among the poorest places in America.
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The gymnosperm vegetative meristem lacks organization into distinct tunica and corpus layers.
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In monocots, the tunica determine the physical characteristics of the leaf edge and margin.
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Tunica County had a 12.1 percent unemployment rate in November, the most recent figures available.
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In general the outermost layer is called the tunica while the innermost layers are the corpus.
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The interior is lined with endothelial cells called tunica intima.
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The Latin word tunica, source of the English word tunic, is taken from a Phoenician word of kindred origin.
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- Tunic: an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue
- The Tunica (or Tonica, or less common form Yuron) language was a language isolate spoken in the Central and Lower Mississippi Valley by in the United States by Native American Tunica peoples. There are no known speakers of the Tunica language remaining.
- Petrorhagia is a small genus of annual and perennial plants of the pink or carnation family, mostly native to the Mediterranean region. The genus is often referred to as Tunica, which is an obsolete synonym. It is low-growing with wiry stems and narrow, grass-like leaves. ...
- A coat; in conidia, a rigid layer, exterior to the cell wall, as opposed to a mucilaginous sheath. adj. tunicate.
- An outer one- to four-cell layered region of the apical meristem, where cell division is anticlinal, i.e., perpendicular to the surface. See apical meristem.
- The thick, fibrous sheath that covers the corpora cavernosa.
- The medical term for a membrane or piece of tissue that covers or lines a body part. The eyeball is surrounded by three tunicae.
- Tunic or robe worn by the nazareno.
- Latin = shirt; hence a covering.
