Sentence examples for a dead tissue from inspiring English sources

At seed maturity the perisperm represents a dead tissue surrounded by an embryo, so that only one ('the inner') of the two cotyledons is directly adjacent to it.

This treatment inactivated transport of compounds from leaf to pods occurring via phloem (a living tissue) but not from pods to leaf, which occurs via xylem (an already dead tissue at functional maturity of plants).

If the muscle was starved of blood, a layer of dead tissue would then separate the face from the skull, a potentially fatal outcome.

Both these features can significantly alter population sizes and their dynamics through time, as well as the extent of potential evolutionary conflicts (cf. selection for survival on host versus survival as a saprophyte on dead tissue; Abang et al. 2006; Barrett et al. 2011; Sommerhalder et al. 2011).

In debridement a surgeon removes dead tissue caused by gangrene, which prevents the infection from spreading.

Attention is thereby refocused on the main event, an operation to remove dead tissue from an infected thighbone.

A 7-year-old girl who could not swallow even a drop of water was taken to Dr. Jackson, who fed an endoscope into her esophagus and removed a grayish mass — perhaps food, perhaps dead tissue — with a forceps.

The bite of the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa) results in a localized region of dead tissue (necrotic lesion) that heals slowly.

Researchers always thought this so-called xylem was a passive column of dead tissue.

Using cadavers to test these methods is a "complicated choice" because dead tissue conducts electricity differently from living tissue, he adds.

A biofilm is a complex structure formed by bacteria that have attached to an artificial surface or dead tissue.