(n.) A white garment worn over another dress by the clergy of the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and certain other churches, in some of their ministrations.
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Tunic
Definition:
(n.) An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes. It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.
(n.) Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others.
(n.) Same as Tunicle.
(n.) A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.
(n.) A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.
(n.) See Mantle, n., 3 (a).
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(1) An essential predominance of the muscle tunic thickness and deterioration of blood supply has been stated in the arterial wall and in the distal parts of the lower extremities.
(2) Our examination focused on the organization of elastin and collagen which are the major components of this tunic.
(3) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
(4) The intestinal tracts from seven different species of tunicates, some solitary, some colonial, were studied fine-structurally by freeze-fracture.
(5) Designs weren’t limited to abayas (a long tunic traditionally worn by Muslim women in the Middle East).
(6) The tunic of the ascidian Styela plicata is rich in a high molecular weight sulfated-L-galactan called the F-1 fraction.
(7) With this parameter, the tunicate hemocyte Thy-1 homology revealed significant relatedness to avian and mammalian Thy-1 molecules and was interestingly more related to mu chains of primitive vertebrates and to HLA class I and II encoded polypeptides than to Thy-1 molecules of higher vertebrates.
(8) The 1-H nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of living tunicate blood cells was examined in an attempt to develop a biophysical assay for the native vanadium chromogen.
(9) Rodioimmunoassayable somatostatin (SRIF) was found in acid ethanol extracts from various parts of the gastro-entero-pancreatic (GEP) endocrine system in reptiles, amphibians, teleost bony fish, cartilaginous fish, and jawless fish, as well as in a deuterostomian invertebrate, the tunicate, Ciona intestinalis.
(10) Somebody had hung a guardsman's bright red ceremonial tunic on a road sign outside a pub.
(11) However, trauma to the vaginal tunic seemed to be crucial, causing damage to the differentiation of the seminiferous epithelium.
(12) So you can assure young Miss Paulus that it is very possible to be warm and fabulously fashionable at the same time, as this season is all about how to wear as many vests as possible under a loose tunic dress before you begin to take on the dimensions of the Michelin man.
(13) Leydig cells in the tunic and elsewhere in the testis show ultrastructural features commonly found in mammalian Leydig cells.
(14) Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural characterization revealed a predominant population of myofibroblasts, an as yet unrecognized observation in tumors arising from testicular tunics.
(15) Most of the cases occur in the testicular tunics, whereas a few originate from the epididymis.
(16) In so doing one can isolate compounds with novel structures or unsuspected activities from almost any phylum, including tunicates, sponges, insects, or even the much-studied terrestrial plants, as exemplified in several recent studies in our laboratory involving activities ranging from antiviral and antimicrobial activity to cytotoxicity and immunomodulation.
(17) As in mice, tunicate alpha- and alpha' -subunits each appeared to bear three N-linked oligosaccharides, one high mannose- and two complex-type glycans and focused as a number of heterogeneous spots on IEF gels.
(18) Antioxidant prenylated hydroquinones and non active chromene or chroman extracted from the marine colonial tunicate Aplidium californicum have been studied in order to throw some light on their biological activity.
(19) In the second sequence, the tunic over one of his shoulders was heavily bloodstained.
(20) This resulted in focal or multifocal loss of the muscular tunic in three ferrets.