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Connective tissue   /kənˈɛktɪv tˈɪsjˌu/   Listen
Connective tissue

noun
1.
Tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments.






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"Connective tissue" Quotes from Famous Books



... carmine solution, which have an affinity for all tissues, and also for the nuclei, the sphere of action of the carmine becomes continually smaller, and finally by the addition of the most powerful nitro body, the hexa-nitro compound, is completely abolished. Connective tissue and bone substance, however, behave differently with the picro-carmine mixture, in as much as here the diffuse stain depends exclusively on the concentration of the carmine, and is quite uninfluenced by the addition of a chemical ...
— Histology of the Blood - Normal and Pathological • Paul Ehrlich

... filled with a protein substance. They are held together with a tough, stringy material called connective tissue. As the animal grows older and its muscles are used more, the walls of these tubes or fibers become dense and tough; likewise, the amount of connective tissue increases and becomes tougher. Among the muscle fibers are embedded layers and particles of fat, the quantity of which varies greatly in different animals and depends largely on the age of the animal. For ...
— Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 - Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish • Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

... This joins other similar veins and helps to form the hepatic vein, through which the blood leaves the liver; d d, the position of the liver cells between the meshes of the capillaries; A A, branches of the hepatic artery to the interlobular connective tissue and the walls of the large veins and large bile ducts. These branches are seen at r r and form the vena vascularis; v v, vena vascularis; i i, branches of the hepatic artery entering the substance of the lobule and connecting with capillaries from the interlobular vein. ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture



Words linked to "Connective tissue" :   facia, intercellular substance, ground substance, granulation, os, tendon, areolar tissue, bone, labrocyte, bone marrow, collagen, animal tissue, tegument, matrix, skin, fascia, endoneurium, histiocyte, perimysium, scar tissue, granulation tissue, perineurium, cutis, marrow, mast cell, elastic tissue, submucosa, sinew, ligament, mastocyte



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