The phrase "a layer of tissue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to biology, medicine, or anatomy when describing a specific thickness or type of tissue in an organism.
Example: "The surgeon carefully removed a layer of tissue to access the underlying structures."
Alternatives: "a sheet of tissue" or "a stratum of tissue."
Lepidophloios wrapped its megasporangium in a layer of tissue much like that of the seed plants.
Between her hand and the handle of her walking stick is a layer of tissue paper.
The completion of growth is indicated by a layer of tissue, called the external fundamental system (EFS) that lacks bone cells or blood vessels.
The retina is a layer of tissue at the back of the eye that collects light relayed through the lens.
In the early nineteen-seventies, biologists who were scanning baboon placentas with an electron microscope were surprised to see retroviruses on a layer of tissue known as the syncytium, which forms the principal barrier between mother and fetus.
Such animals tend to finish long-bone deposition with a layer of tissue that lacks blood vessels and bone cells, in contrast to tissue that is deposited earlier in the growth process.
The secondary vascular tissue arises from the vascular cambium, a layer of meristematic tissue insinuated between the primary xylem and primary phloem (see above Vascular tissue).
It's a particularly large and complex segment with a layer of strong tissue on the outside, and gradations of tender mucous membrane tissue and fatty mass on the inside.
A typical dentin structure was regenerated, in which a layer of dentin tissue formed on the surface of the HA/TCP along with connective tissue (Figure 1E).
Note that the megasporangium is almost completely enclosed in a layer of sporophytic tissue.
If the muscle was starved of blood, a layer of dead tissue would then separate the face from the skull, a potentially fatal outcome.
