tegument

n. 皮, 外皮, 天然壳 [医] 体被, 皮肤

发音

其它 /ˈtɛɡ.jʊ.mənt/

词形变化

teguments 复数 teguments

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something which covers; a covering or coating.

    1658: But in the Homericall Urne of Patroclus, whatever was the solid Tegument, we finde the immediate covering to be a purple peece of silk — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 21)

  2. 2.

    A natural covering of the body or of a bodily organ; an integument.

    废旧 医学

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

skin cutis

上位词 1

connective tissue

下位词 10

investment buff scalp foreskin prepuce agnail cuticle dewlap hangnail skin graft

部分词 10

line wrinkle scab seam crease whitehead pore freckle furrow blackhead

整体词 1

integumentary system

词源

Also in late Middle English, borrowed from Latin tegumentum (“a cover”), from tegere (“to cover, clothe”, verb) + -mentum (suffix forming nouns). Compare integument.

来源：wiktionary