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1723 tr. R. J. C. de Garengeot Treat. Chirurg. Operations xxxv. 326 The pituitous Membrane of the Nose is provided with a vast Number of small Glands, the Tomentum [Fr. le Tomentum ou le duvet] whereof, or the Vesicle, as some will have it, is imbibed from the very first Conformation, with a Humor perfectly like the thick Lympha, which moistens that whole Membrane.

1742 G. Cheyne Nat. Method cureing Dis. i. 24 A Down, Velvet, or Tomentum, being discover'd in all the secretory Ducts of the Glands.

1800 A. Fyfe Compend. Anat. Human Body for Use Students II. iv. 16 The Circumvolutions are every where connected to the Pia Mater by an infinite number of small Vessels,—called by Ruysch, Tomentum Cerebri,—which run into the Substance of the Brain.

1836 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 45 42 Its exterior surface [sc. that of the human ovum], which is formed by the chorion, is found to be invested with a thick tomentum, to which is commonly applied such an epithet as lanuginous or villous.

1855 W. T. Helmuth Surg. & its Adaptation to Homœopathic Pract. xiv. 282 The transverse threads of soft old linen are drawn out by a machine, leaving the longitudinal ones covered by a sort of tomentum or cotton-like mass.

1873 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 11 Oct. 433/2 The general tenor of the paper was to indicate the existence of an anatomical sheath of the cerebral arteries, formed by an extension inwards of the tomentum cerebri.

1893 B. G. Wilder Physiol. Practicums viii. 51 All surfaces denuded of the pia may be seen to be finely punctate, as if by pin pricks, and the ental surface of the pia to present a woolly aspect called tomentum, from the large number of broken vessels.