handkerchief
 
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[ U ](alsotissue paper)
thin, light paper used especially for wrapping delicate things: （尤用于包裹易碎物品的）薄纸
The shop assistant wrapped the vase carefully in tissue paper.店员用薄纸将花瓶仔细地包好。
 
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tissue | American Dictionary

tissue
noun
us/ˈtɪʃ·u/

tissuenoun (PAPER)

[ C ]
a piece of soft, thin paper which absorbs liquids:
He wiped his nose with a tissue.

tissuenoun (CELLS)

[ U ] biology
a group of related cells that forms larger parts of animals and plants

Examples of tissue

tissue
The soft palate, uvula, redundant pharyngeal tissues, and sometimes the tonsils are removed (51).
Removing water from living tissues causes a series of dehydration stresses.
Following their emission, positrons travel for a short distance that is defined by their energy and the surrounding tissue.
The reduction of viability as water was removed from tissues clearly demonstrated that the tissues were damaged by the drying process.
The coronary vasculature is visible and there is a lack ofadherent tissue.
Another possible solution is to mandate independent third-party tissue testing.
It is hypothesized that the presence of these structures is a factor helping the parasite to grow in a variety of hosts and tissues.
The separation was not observed in tissues that were prepared completely without water.
The best results were obtained when both tissues were freshly prepared.
The latter was adopted by some workers, who claimed that the staining actions obtained were useful in differentiating between tissues.
Our analysis did not distinguish between these two tissues, because they had not differentiated in the early blastocysts studied here.
This pathway regulates cell differentiation in many different tissues.
If further dissemination is discovered and systemic therapy is considered, tissue confirmation by needle biopsy should be performed.
That is, biological tissue that initially has many possibilities for subsequent specialization through development reduces those possibilities to a subset of the original.
By understanding how chemicals work, appropriate cell and tissue systems can be selected to specifically address questions.
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