Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
integumentary .
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- adjective Of or pertaining to the
integument
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the integument
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Examples
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Sponge-grafts are often used to hasten cicatrization of integumental wounds.
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Sponge-grafts are often used to hasten cicatrization of integumental wounds.
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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 Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888
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My impression of it was quite vivid enough without that, and the vision of the Colosseum remained, and still remains, the immense skeleton of the stupendous form stripped of all integumental charm and broken down half one side of its vast oval, so that wellnigh a quarter of the structural bones are gone.
Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878
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All water-dogs, and some others, are subject to a disease designated by this name, and which, in fact, is inflammation of the integumental lining of the inside of the ear.
The Dog William Youatt 1811
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Feduccia laments that "the major and most worrying problem of the feathered dinosaur hypothesis is that the integumental structures have been homologized with avian feathers on the basis of anatomically and paleontologically unsound and misleading information."
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