Connective tissue that is dominated by collagen fibres organized into a definitive pattern (e.g., parallel to one another), with comparatively fewer cells (mostly fibroblasts). [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000034 PSPUB:0000170 VSAO:0000050 http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051070 ]
Synonyms: typus regularis (textus connectivus collagenosus compactus) dense regular collagenous tissue dense fibrous connective tissue dense regular collagenous connective tissue regular dense connective tissue
Term information
- VSAO:0000050
- NCIT:C33453
- XAO:0004030
- SCTID:22560007
- FMA:64781
- Wikipedia:Dense_regular_connective_tissue
Term relations
- regular connective tissue and has part some elastic fiber and composed primarily of some collection of collagen fibrils