Integument: alternatives and connections

Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a perpetual ambient.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as…

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water…

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorp…

The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum.

a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…

The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.

an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his gara…

The mucous membrane which covers the external surface of the ball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctival membr…

a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…

(Anat.) See Meson.

The inner coating of a seed. See Tegmen.

The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa.

A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus.

swelling caused by blood collecting in a body cavity (especially a swelling of the membrane covering the testis)

One who invests.

Not medullated; (Anat.) without a medulla or marrow, or without a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber.