Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to integument; composing or consisting of skin or other covering or investing part or structure; tegminal; tectorial.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; consisting of teguments; serving as a tegument or covering.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a tegument or teguments; serving as a covering.

Etymologies

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Compare French tégumentaire.

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Examples

  • But tissue, in connexion with it, becomes in part changed, thus forming the auditory nerve, which places the tegumentary sac in direct communication with the brain itself.

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • All those familiar with the characteristic differences of seeds, their chemical constituents, their tegumentary coverings, rudimentary parts, etc., thoroughly understand the process in its outward manifestation.

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

  • Replacing of a displaced part, or the reducing of a hernia, by manipulation without cutting. tegument (tegumentary, integument)

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • The tegumentary envelope of the head, as well as the dura-matral lining, serves to damp cranial vibration consequent upon concussion; while the sutural isolation of the several component bones of the cranium also prevents, in some degree, the extension of fractures and the vibrations of concussion.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • Brilliant colours usually appear just in proportion to the development of tegumentary appendages.

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Researches into the pathological anatomy of this affection clearly establish that the inflammation incident to it affects in different degrees the skin, the tegumentary vessels, the cellular tissue and the lymphatic system, and that its fatality and violence are in proportion to the depth and number of the structures involved.

    An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863

  • "Finally, of the use of intermediate tegumentary coverings, made of thin rubber or gold-beater's skin, and so often relied upon as absolute preventives, Madame de Stael is reputed to have said, 'They are cobwebs for protection, and bulwarks against love.'

    Plain Facts for Old and Young John Harvey Kellogg 1897

  • "Finally, of the use of intermediate tegumentary coverings, made of thin rubber or gold-beater's skin, and so often relied upon as absolute preventives, Madame de Stael is reputed to have said, ` They are cobwebs for protection, and bulwarks against love. '

    Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life. 1877

  • 14 POSTBBIOR CRANIAL ARCHES are not exclusively tegumentary, but are identical in character with the bones of the brain case, and the sutures are visible on the under as well as the upper side.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

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