Usually means: Groups of similar cells functioning together.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word tissue:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tissue: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tissue: Merriam-Webster
  3. tissue, tissue: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tissue: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tissue: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tissue: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tissue, tissue: Wordnik
  8. tissue: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tissue: Wiktionary
  10. tissue: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tissue: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tissue: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tissue: Dictionary.com
  14. tissue: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tissue: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Tissue (Tomaranai Seishun), Tissue (biology), Tissue (disambiguation), Tissue: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tissue: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tissue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tissue: Rhymezone
  20. tissue, tissue (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tissue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tissue: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tissue: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tissue: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. tissue: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tissue (disambiguation), tissue: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. tissue: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Tissue: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  5. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Tissue: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  8. Tissue: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  9. tissue: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. Tissue (disambiguation), tissue: Medical dictionary
  11. Tissue: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  13. tissue: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tissue: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. tissue: Natural History Terms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tissue, tissue: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tissue: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Thin, woven, gauze-like fabric.
noun:  A fine transparent silk material, used for veils, etc.; specifically, cloth interwoven with gold or silver threads, or embossed with figures.
noun:  A sheet of absorbent paper, especially one that is made to be used as tissue paper, toilet paper or a handkerchief.
noun:  Absorbent paper as material.
noun:  (biology) A group of cells (along with their extracellular matrix if any) that are similar in origin and function together to do a specific job.
noun:  Web; texture; complicated fabrication; connected series.
noun:  (horse racing, slang) The scratch sheet or racing form.
verb:  To form tissue of; to interweave.

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