Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body, as the skin, or a membrane that invests a particular part.
(1) Created Rad9 skin-conditional knockout mice. Experiments using the mouse ... We are currently studying two viral tegument proteins, ORF33 and ORF52.