Learn about connective tissue, one of the body's four tissue types. It plays essential roles by protecting, supporting, and joining organs to tissues
Dense connective tissue is divided into regular and irregular types. Both have a matrix composed mainly of collagen fibers, although dense regular tissue has a matrix of parallel collagen fibers. It is very strong and connects other tissue types to each other; tendons connect muscle to bone and...
What are the different classifications of connective tissue? What makes a connective tissue "loose" or "dense"?What type of connective tissue is found in a synchondrosis?Which connective tissue is about 50% water?Which is not one of the four principal tissue types? (a) Nervous tissue (b)...
What is cuboidal epithelial tissue? What are 3 types of connective tissue? What do all epithelial tissues have in common? What is the tissue that makes up the outer covering in humans? What is nervous tissue made of? What is the matrix in connective tissue?
Loose irregular connective tissue contains numerous cells and a loose fiber arrangement in a moderately viscous fluid matrix. The dense irregular connective tissue has a dense woven network of collagen and elastic fibers in a viscous matrix. Dense connective tissue is found in joint capsules, muscle...
There are two types of bone tissue, referred to as cortical bone and cancellous bone. Cortical bone is also known as compact or dense bone, and most of a body's bones are made from this kind of bone. It is very strong and dense, and it makes up the hard exterior of a bone. Its...
Serves as a layer of very dense and fiberous connective tissue that surrounds individual muscles and also divides groups of muscles into separate ” compartments.” This type has a high density of elastin Fibre that helps to determine its overall resilience. This type of Fasca is mainly responsi...
Ligaments are a dense connective tissue that connects bone to bone. They are fairly short in comparison to tendons, but very similar in what they are made of. Ligaments are tough and flexible and look like a white band or cable-like structure. To withstand forces that it takes from ...
Dense Connective Tissue. Cartilage. Bone. Blood. How do you detect fibrocartilage? Fibrocartilage is a transition tissue that should be viewed as a blend betweenhyaline cartilage and dense fibrous connectivetissue. It is a white, densely arranged, opaque, tufted tissue with a mixture of both chond...
Although plantar fasciitis is somewhat tendinitis-y, the plantar fascia is no tendon: it’s actually more like a ligament, although it’s strange even for a ligament. It is a sheet of connective tissue (“fascia”) that stretches from the heel to toes, spanning the arch of the foot, fro...