tegument
pronunciation
How to pronounce tegument in British English:
UK ['tegjʊmənt]
How to pronounce tegument in American English:
US ['tegjəment]
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- Noun:
- a natural protective covering of the body; site of the sense of touch
Word Origin
- tegument (n.)
- "a covering, a natural protection of the body or some part of it," mid-15c., from Latin tegumentum "a covering, a cover," from tegere "to cover," from PIE root *(s)teg- (2) "to cover" (see stegosaurus). Related: Tegumentary.
Example
- 1. Effects of scorpion tegument protein on immune function in normal mice .
- 2. Herpesvirus ; transcription ; tegument protein ; gfp ; dna insertion elements .
- 3. And they constructed recombinant herpes simplex viruses expressing gfp-tagged tegument proteins to examine virus infection in live cells .
- 4. Molecular characterization of schistosoma japonicum tegument protein tetraspanin-2 : effect of sequence variation on its potential as a vaccine candidate .
- 5. Individual plant of result 786-o cell is fostered successfully in body tegument , grow faster , every 3 days go down to the future generation 1 times .