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Definition of Integuments
1. integument [n] - See also: integument
Lexicographical Neighbors of Integuments
Literary usage of Integuments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"Theories on the nature of the integuments of the ovule:— 1. Foliar-appendage
theory : The integuments are the foliar appendages of the nucellus, ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"DEVELOPMENT OF THE integuments. To enter into a description of the development
... The integuments arise always as lateral outgrowths on the ovule below the ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"2. A contracted and deformed state of the tarsal cartilage. Entropium from
relaxation of the integuments of the eyelid, and spasmodic contraction of the ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1833)
"In some rare cases the radius has been fractured, the cubitus dislocated, and
protruded through the integuments. We hare a ease of this kind sufficiently ..."
5. A Treatise on Dislocations and Fractures of the Joints by Astley Cooper, Bransby Blake Cooper (1851)
"... though some portion of the integuments sloughed away, and two different
suppurations took place in the joint, followed by two small exfoliations. ..."
6. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"The Formation of the Embryonic Rudiment and the Embryonic integuments. ...
This may be provided with prominences to assist in splitting the egg-integuments, ..."
7. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"... integuments, which are either folded тю or granular, or tubercular, or shielded.
Mi there are many saurians which, ..."
8. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"only to certain integuments. Sec Hunting, art. 5, and the Gent. Rec. Я ! Rather.
Yorksh. (Kenne« MS.) LEATHER-COAT. The golden russeting. ..."
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