Category: T
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Target organs
Organs that can be damaged by hypertension, especially arteries of the heart, brain, kidney, eye, and lower extremities. A body organ whose metabolic function responds to a hormone in a specific way. In radiology, organ intended to receive the greatest therapeutic or diagnostic dose of a radioactive substance. The specific organ (or tissue) at which…
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Tesselate
Of a surface, with markings in squares or rectangles, like venation of Aponogetonaceae or petals of some species of Fritillaria (Liliaceae).
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Tomentosus
Covered with soft, matted, flat hairs.
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Tubes
Hollow, cylindrical structures lined with basidia and open at one end as a pore; characteristic of boletes and polypores. A long hollow passage in the body. A soft flexible pipe for carrying liquid or gas. A soft plastic or metal pipe, sealed at one end and with a lid at the other, used to dispense…
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Troops
A pattern of fruiting in which mushrooms grow close together in large numbers, but not so close as to be considered a cluster.
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Tremelloid
(Type of fruit body or basidium) Relating to the genus Tremella; having a jellylike fruit body and basidia with longitudinal cruciate septa.
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Translucent-lined
(Of cap margin) Having thin, translucent, smooth flesh that allows the gills to show through as lines or striations.
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Toadstool
A term used to denote an inedible or poisonous, stemmed mushroom, or an alternative to mushroom in general. Any of various fungi with an umbrella-shaped cap, especially a poisonous mushroom.
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Tiksnagni
The nature of the digestive system when it is overactive. This can lead to rapid digestion, hunger, hypoglycaemia and over-metabolism. The tendency of pitta aggravation is to have a tiksnagni.
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Tiksna
The quality of sharpness that can penetrate deeply into the tissues.