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Definition of Tegument
1. Noun. A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch. "Your skin is the largest organ of your body"
Specialized synonyms: Investment, Thick Skin, Skin Graft, Buff, Dewlap, Foreskin, Prepuce, Foreskin, Prepuce, Scalp, Cuticle, Agnail, Hangnail
Generic synonyms: Body Covering, Connective Tissue
Terms within: Pressure Point, Cuticle, Epidermis, Skin Cell, Corium, Derma, Dermis, Macula, Macule, Freckle, Lentigo, Liver Spot, Milium, Whitehead, Blackhead, Comedo, Pore, Scab, Sudoriferous Gland, Sweat Gland, Free Nerve Ending, Pacinian Corpuscle, Crease, Crinkle, Furrow, Line, Seam, Wrinkle
Group relationships: Integumentary System
Terms within: Melanin
Derivative terms: Cutaneal, Skin, Skinny
Definition of Tegument
1. n. A cover or covering; an integument.
Definition of Tegument
1. Noun. Something which covers; a covering or coating. ¹
2. Noun. (context: anatomy obsolete) A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tegument
1. a covering [n -S] - See also: covering
Medical Definition of Tegument
1. 1. A cover or covering; an integument. 2. Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide. Origin: L. Tegumentum, from tegere to cover. See Thatch, and cf. Detect, Protect. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tegument
Literary usage of Tegument
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"The part so removed is the 'tegument,' and constitutes the outermost of the organs
differentiated ... tegument mainly consists of an outer epithelial layer, ..."
2. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"The part so removed is the 'tegument,' and constitutes the outermost of the ...
tegument mainly consists of an outer epithelial layer, called ' epiderm,' ..."
3. English Synonymes Explained, in Alphabetical Order by George Crabb (1816)
"To inform. то TEAR, v. To break. tegument, COVERING. tegument, in Latin ...
but tegument is employed for th> which is natural: clothing isth^c- ..."
4. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1855)
"a multiple of parts, which are thrown off and reproduced like the cast tegument
itself, until causes are induced which occasion its atrophy and decay. ..."
5. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates by Richard Owen (1866)
"Appendages of the tegument.—The Vertebrate classes have each their characteristic
external covering: the cold-blooded ..."
6. A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary by Harvey Newcomb (1860)
"... and their clothing and dwellings are for the most part made of animal tegument
or fibre. Their employment consists in tending cattle, the chase, ..."
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