Sentence examples for lump of tissue from inspiring English sources

But you lose all sense of squeamishness when you need a lump of tissue to survive.

Sitting on top of a lump of tissue called the "junk", this oil-filled sac was prized by whalers, but its actual function in sperm whales remains unknown.

Somehow this three-pound lump of tissue generates thoughts and emotions, holds memories, creates movements, makes possible the creative acts peculiar to our species and gives rise to the mysterious sense of consciousness.

The union is sealed when their triumphant image is reproduced on a biscuit tin, and by Roley's gift of foal's bread – a lump of tissue found in the mouth of some new-born horses and believed to deliver good fortune.

And if the tail is not part of that lump, then presumably it is also not part of the larger lump of tissue that constitutes the whole cat (as explicitly acknowledged by some anti-extensionalists, e.g. Lowe 2001: 148 and Fine 2003: 198, n. 5, though see Hershenov 2008 for misgivings).

On the other hand, if one believes that neither x nor y is part of the other, then presumably the same belief will also apply to some of their proper parts—say, the cat's tail and the corresponding lump of tissue.

Overgrowth of the mucous membrane causes cervical polyps (projecting lumps of tissue).

In adults it may form many polyps (lumps of tissue) that can plug the larynx; after removal it may reappear.

Although supplementation of deleted IOD embryos with high concentrations of FGF2 produced small lumps of tissue overlying the trophoblast giant cells (8/10; Fig. 3E), these developed neither parietal endoderm migratory behaviour nor morphology, and were assumed to indicate proliferation of the diploid polar trophectoderm in response to FGF2, as reported previously (Nichols et al., 1998).

That is, there is no obvious reason to suppose that the lump of feline tissue that in the actual world constitutes Tail and the rest of Tibbles's body that lump of feline tissue that is now resting on the carpet cannot survive the annihilation of Tail.

Thus began the first of six surgeries to shape the lump of scar tissue into something resembling a nose.