Just under the skin, anchoring it loosely to the underlying muscles, is connective tissue in network form.
Bit by bit the structure, bone, cartilage, or connective tissue, as the case may be, is built up by the combined activities of many cells.
The third kind of supporting material is connective tissue.
With a blunt instrument, separate the muscles, by tearing apart the connective tissue binding them together, and find the glistening white strips of connective tissue (tendons) which attach them to the bones.
The inner coat consists of a delicate lining of flat cells resting upon a thin layer of connective tissue.
They consist of tough, inelastic sheets of connective tissue, and are so placed that pressure on one side causes them to come together and shut up the passageway, while pressure on the opposite side causes them to open.
This place may be the liver, lungs, muscles, connective tissue, or even the brain (e.
The eggs develop in connective-tissue pouches which early give rise to a double pedunculated capsule of connective tissue.
Malt liquors seem to produce fatty degeneration, while the stronger liquors cause the development of connective tissue.
This tube is reinforced in different ways by connective tissue, smooth muscle fibers, and fibroelastic tissue.
Coincidently with this, there is thickening by a connective tissue growth in the adventitia.
The elastic tissue does lose its specific property and the artery thus becomes practically a connective tissue tube.
As a rule there has been a sufficient growth of connective tissue in the media and adventitia to repair the damage done to the media.
Neither the mineral substance nor the connective tissue in bone can be seen until either one or the other is eliminated.
The burned bone needs something to hold it together--a connective tissue.
The filling up of the interlobular spaces with fibrin and connective tissue of inflammatory origin is not thus limited to pleuropneumonia, but may appear in a marked degree in other lung diseases.
A nerve is a cord consisting of a certain number of fibers of nerve tissue, inclosed in a sheath of connective tissue.
Both males and females are in the habit of coiling themselves within the muscles, where they are found invested by a capsule of connective tissue.
The divided cartilaginous rings, six in number, were united only by a thin layer of connective tissue.
Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue.
A tumor springing from the neuroglia orconnective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.
The white matter is composed entirely of nerve fibers, held together by a framework of connective tissue.
Another set of fibers called connective tissue, holds the fibers together in bundles or separate muscles, and interlaces and crosses them in every direction.
The Areolar, or Connective Tissue, is a complete network of delicate fibers, spread over the body, and serves to bind the various organs and parts together.
Outpourings of blood also occur into the subcutaneous connective tissue, notably that of the legs, and in localities where connective tissue is particularly abundant and loose, as in the ham and axilla.
Connective tissue of the fibrous zone which entirely surrounds the central part.
Dickinson, Trousseau, and Budd describe an overgrowth of connective tissue, as well as of the cells of the liver, producing a hypertrophic cirrhosis.
In the very interesting paper of Foulis, the conclusion is arrived at, that while the ova are derived from the germinal epithelium, the cells of the follicle originate from the ordinary connective tissue cells of the stroma.
The pseudo-epithelium is separated from the middle layer by a more or less complete stratum of connective tissue, which, however, is traversed by trabeculae connecting the two layers of the epithelium.
The lobes are not separated from each other by connective tissue prolongations; the epithelium being at this stage perfectly free from any ingrowths of stroma.
Connective tissue softened at low temperature, and with water.
Each muscle consists of bundles of tubes held together by connective tissue.
The connective tissue of fish softens and dissolves more readily than does that of meat.
Nor could I satisfy myself that the margins of the scute were continuous with the surrounding bundles of connective tissue.
Through the apertures in this primitive osseous plate (the rudiment of the middle layer of the future scute), bundles of connective tissue extend, connecting the deep with the superjacent lamellae.
The marrow is no longer in contact with the edge of the junction and the space is filled with a mass of connective tissue; this is very characteristic in cases of fracture.
Sato and Nambu described an increase of connective tissue, and others anemia and pigmentation.
Small hemorrhages, round-celled infiltration, increase of connective tissue, clumps of pigment containing cells, or a diffuse deposit of brownish granules complete the picture.
The wall of an ovarian tube consists of a transparent elastic membrane, lined by epithelium, and invested externally by a peritoneal layer of connective tissue.
The adventitia (4), orconnective tissue layer, is but slightly developed in the adult Cockroach.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "connective tissue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
