TEGUMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tegument mean? 

• TEGUMENT (noun)
  The noun TEGUMENT has 1 sense:

1. a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch

  Familiarity information: TEGUMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEGUMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cutis; skin; tegument

Context example:

your skin is the largest organ of your body

Hypernyms ("tegument" is a kind of...):

connective tissue (tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments)

body covering (any covering for the body or a body part)

Meronyms (parts of "tegument"):

blackhead; comedo (a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin)

Pacinian corpuscle (a specialized bulblike nerve ending located in the subcutaneous tissue of the skin; occurs abundantly in the skin of palms and soles and joints and genitals)

free nerve ending (microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor)

crease; crinkle; furrow; line; seam; wrinkle (a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface)

sudoriferous gland; sweat gland (any of the glands in the skin that secrete perspiration)

scab (the crustlike surface of a healing skin lesion)

pore (any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal)

milium; whitehead (a small whitish lump in the skin due to a clogged sebaceous gland)

liver spot (a type of skin disease that causes brown spots on the skin)

freckle; lentigo (a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin)

macula; macule (a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases)

corium; derma; dermis (the deep vascular inner layer of the skin)

skin cell (any of the cells making up the skin)

cuticle; epidermis (the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates)

pressure point (an area on the skin that is highly sensitive to pressure)

Meronyms (substance of "tegument"):

melanin (insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tegument"):

investment (outer layer or covering of an organ or part or organism)

thick skin (skin that is very thick (as an elephant or rhinoceros))

skin graft (a piece of skin taken from a donor area and surgically grafted at the site of an injury or burn)

buff (bare skin)

dewlap (a hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck)

foreskin; prepuce (a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis)

foreskin; prepuce (a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris)

scalp (the skin that covers the top of the head)

cuticle (the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail)

agnail; hangnail (a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected)

Holonyms ("tegument" is a part of...):

integumentary system (the skin and its appendages)

 Context examples 

The matrix or tegument which contacts both the envelope and the capsid contains at least 15-20 proteins.

(Human Herpesvirus 1, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of enveloped and spherical viruses with a capsid with T=16 icosahedral symmetry and surrounded by amorphous tegument, in the Herpesviridae family and Roseolovirus genus.

(Human Herpesvirus 7, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of enveloped and spherical viruses with a capsid with T=16 icosahedral symmetry and surrounded by amorphous tegument, in the Herpesviridae family and Cytomegalovirus genus.

(Human Herpesvirus 5, NCI Thesaurus)

A species of enveloped and spherical viruses with a capsid with T=16 icosahedral symmetry and surrounded by amorphous tegument, in the Herpesviridae family and Simplexvirus genus.

(Human Herpesvirus 2, NCI Thesaurus)

CMVpp65, a tegument protein of the herpes virus CMV, is the main viral antigen found in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) after viral infection and may activate cell-mediated immunity.

(CMVpp65-A*0201 Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A poloxamer-formulated, bivalent DNA vaccine containing two plasmids encoding both the human cytomegaloviral (CMV) tegument phosphoprotein 65 (pp65), a major internal matrix protein, and glycoprotein B (gB), an important CMV component responsible for attachment and entry into cells, with potential immunostimulatory properties.

(CMVpp65/gB Plasmid Vaccine ASP0113, NCI Thesaurus)