integument

[ US /ˌɪnˈtɛɡjəmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. an outer protective covering such as the skin of an animal or a cuticle or seed coat or rind or shell
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How To Use integument In A Sentence

  • The spectacle of a lady of mature years and more than generous integumental upholstery dying of consumption was more than the Venetian sense of humor could endure with equanimity. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
  • In red mange the whole integument is in a state of acute inflammation; surfeit, or blotches, a kind of cuticular eruption breaks out on particular parts of the body without the slightest notice, and, worse than all, a direct febrile attack, with swelling and ulceration, occurs, under which the dog evidently suffers peculiar heat and pain. The Dog
  • The _submaxillary gland_ lies under the integument and fascia in the triangle formed by the lower jaw and the two bellies of the digastric muscle. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • Of the two ducts that lead from the heart, the one proceeds towards the circumjacent integument, and the other, like a navel-string, towards the yolk. The History of Animals
  • But then I perceived the resemblance of its grey-brown, shiny, leathery integument to that of the other sprawling bodies beyond, and the true nature of this dexterous workman dawned upon me. The War of The Worlds
  • The integumental wounds were easily detected on the body of infested bee pupae by vital staining with Trypan blue.
  • It then ascends upon the forehead, and ends in two branches, a medial and a lateral, which supply the integument of the scalp, reaching nearly as far back as the lambdoidal suture; they are at first situated beneath the Frontalis, the medial branch perforating the muscle, the lateral branch the galea aponeurotica. IX. Neurology. 5e. The Trigeminal Nerve
  • These filial organs are enclosed by a maternal seed coat, derived from one or both ovular integuments.
  • In a scar after a wound the integument is only opake; but in these blotches, which are called morphew and freckles, the small vessels seem to have become inactive with some of the serum of the blood stagnating in them, from whence their colour. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • Pigmentary effectors enable crustaceans to display rapidly reversible integumental color changes and retinal screening pigment movements.
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