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microtissue

noun

Etymology

From micro- + tissue.

  1. derived from texō — “to weave”
  2. derived from tissu — “woven”
  3. inherited from tissu
  4. prefixed as microtissue — “micro + tissue”

Definitions

  1. microscale tissue

    • When grown in 3D using scaffold-free agarose hydrogels, MCF-7 human breast cancer cells self-organize to form directionally-oriented microtissues that contain a luminal space, reminiscent of the in vivo structure of the mammary gland.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for microtissue. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA