tunican.1
/ˈtjuːnɪkə/ 1. Anatomy. = tunic n. 4a in various modern Latin collocations, as tunica adventitia [see adventitious adj.] , an outer sheath, esp. of a blood vessel; tunica albuginea [Latin albūginis white spot] , a white fibrous layer, esp. of the penis or testes; tunica vaginalis, a serous membrane covering much of the testis.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > tissue of
tunica albuginea1698
erectile tissue1830
mediastinum testis1830
the world > life > the body > secretory organs > gland > specific glands > [noun] > testicle or testicles > integument of
codOE
pursec1395
bollock codc1450
codwarea1475
scrotum1598
tunica vaginalis1828
ball bag1955
nutsack1970
ball sack1974
scrote1975
bawbag1999
dicksack2009
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > outer covering
hameOE
curtel1398
pelliculea1400
coatc1400
pellicle?a1425
investment1646
tegument1646
cataphragm1656
integument1664
cortexa1676
vagina1683
vaginula1698
scabbard1753
sheath1805
calyx1851
ocrea1890
tunica adventitia1890
the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun] > membranes of
gutlet1615
intima1873
media1876
tunica adventitia1890
1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies sig. Aa The tunica albuginea, or proper membrane of the testes.
1828 J. Quain Elements Anat. 530 The tunica vaginalis, or serous covering derived from the peritonæum.
1828 J. Quain Elements Anat. 531 The testis is inclosed in a dense, firm, fibrous investment..called tunica albuginea.
1890 Gray's Anat. (ed. 12) 48 The arteries are composed of three coats: internal or endothelial coat (tunica intima of Kölliker); middle muscular coat (tunica media); and external cellular coat (tunica adventitia).
1907 A.M. Buchanan Man. Anat. II. 634 The visceral portion of the tunica vaginalis..is sometimes called the tunica adnata (‘born to’).
1925 F. H. A. Marshall Sexual Physiol. 19 Each testis is surrounded by a serous membrane (the tunica vaginalis) and within this is a fibrous capsule (the tunica albuginea).
1963 Lancet 5 Jan. 19/2 The two layers of the tunica vaginalis, which normally invest the testis alone, extend upwards to cover the whole epididymis and the cord, sometimes as high as the inguinal canal.
1977 Proc. Royal Soc. Med. 70 645/1 They observed degenerative changes mainly in the progressive thickening of the tunica adventitia.
1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) vii. 1152/1 The fibrous layer of the eyeball..consists of an opaque, posterior part, the tunica sclera, and a transparent, anterior part, the tunica cornea.
2. Botany. [First used in this sense in German by A. Schmidt 1924, in Bot. Archiv (Berlin) 78 352.] The outer sheath of an apical meristem, whose cells divide anticlinally and differentiate into the outer layers of the plant body.
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1939 Bot. Rev. 5 460 In the tunica, surface growth, accompanied by anticlinal divisions, predominates.
1958 Jrnl. Faculty Sci. Univ. Tokyo 7 368 Two tissue zones occur in the apical meristem, that is, the tunica, consisting of one ore more periclinal layers of cells, and the corpus, a mass of cells enclosed by the tunica.
1965 K. Esau Plant Anat. (ed. 2) v. 103 One to five layers of tunica have been reported for dicotyledons, with two represented in the largest number of species.
1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 48 Commonly in the angiosperms (e.g. Forsythia..) an outer layer of layers of cells of the apical meristem, called the tunica or mantle and an inner mass of cells, called the corpus or core are distinguished.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
Tunican.2
/ˈtjuːnɪkə/ (A member of) an American Indian people of the lower Mississippi valley; their language, now extinct.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Eastern America > [noun]
Floridian1589
Chickasaw1674
Yamasee1699
Alabama1708
Natchez1708
Santee1709
Cherokee1721
Choctaw1722
Coushatta1722
Creek1725
Yuchi1738
Muskogee1751
Floridan1763
Muskogee1789
Mikasuki1791
Opelousa1805
Karankawa1806
Tunica1806
Melungeon1813
Alabamian1817
Ozark1819
Alabaman1829
the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Penutian > Gulf Penutian > Tunica
Tunican1902
Tunica1911
1806 J. Sibley in Message from President of U.S., communicating Discoveries made in exploring Missouri by Capts. Lewis & Clark 83 Tunicas. These people lived formerly on the Bayau Tunica..on the Mississippi, east side... Their native language is peculiar to themselves.
1891 D. G. Brinton Amer. Race i. v. 91 The Tonicas are frequently mentioned in early French accounts of the colony of Louisiana.
1891 J. W. Powell Indian Ling. Families 125 The distinctness of the Tonika language, has long been suspected, and was indeed distinctly stated by Dr. Sibley in 1806.
1891 J. W. Powell Indian Ling. Families 125 The Tonika are known to have occupied three localities.
1911 J. R. Swanton Indian Tribes Lower Mississippi (Bureau Amer. Ethnol.) 19 The method of distinguishing masculine and feminine pronominal forms is also decidedly unlike, Taënsa employing a suffix while Tunica uses entirely distinct forms.
1947 Romance Philol. I. 145 (title) Some French loan-words in Tunica.
Derivatives
ˈTunican n. (also †ˈTonikan) a postulated linguistic family of which Tunica was the chief member.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Penutian > Gulf Penutian > Tunica
Tunican1902
Tunica1911
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 374/1 [Linguistic families of North America] Tonikan, Miss.
1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 100 Tunican (comprising Tunica, Atakapa, and Chitimacha).
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