Dictionary entry details
• TEGUMENT (noun)
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...):
body covering (any covering for the body or a body part)
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)
Meronyms (parts of "tegument"):
crease; crinkle; furrow; line; seam; wrinkle (a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface)
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)
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)
blackhead; comedo (a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin)
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)
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)
cuticle (the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail)
scalp (the skin that covers the top of the head)
foreskin; prepuce (a fold of skin covering the tip of the clitoris)
foreskin; prepuce (a fold of skin covering the tip of the penis)
agnail; hangnail (a loose narrow strip of skin near the base of a fingernail; tearing it produces a painful sore that is easily infected)
dewlap (a hanging fold of loose skin on an elderly person's neck)
buff (bare skin; naked)
skin graft (a piece of skin taken from a donor area and surgically grafted at the site of an injury or burn)
thick skin (skin that is very thick (as an elephant or rhinoceros))
Holonyms ("tegument" is a part of...):
integumentary system (the skin and its appendages)
