Outer Coat

Outer coat can refer to:

  • Guard hair - the longest, most coarse hairs in a mammal's coat
  • Tunica adventitia (vessels) - the outermost layer of a blood vessel

Famous quotes containing the words outer and/or coat:

    “I know, it must have been my imagination, but it makes me realize how desperately alone the Earth is. Hanging in space like a speck of food floating in the ocean. Sooner or later to be swallowed up by some creature floating by.... Time will tell, Dr. Mason. We can only wait and wonder. Wonder how, wonder when.”
    —Tom Graeff. Young astronomer, Teenagers from Outer Space, after just seeing the invading spaceship through his telescope, and dismissing it (1959)

    “Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)