Connective tissue, which consists of fibroblasts, the intercellular matrix of which contains a regular network of collagen and elastic fiber bundles. Examples: bone (tissue), cartilage (tissue), dense regular connective tissue. [ FMA:20103 ]
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- FMA:20103
editor note
the connective tissue hierarchy largely follows FMA with definitions from VSAO. Note that in FMA, loose-CT is irregular-CT. This means regular-CT is necessarily equivalent to dense-regular-CT (assuming a JEPD classification).
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Subclass of:
- connective tissue
- cellular anatomical structure
- has part some elastic fiber
- has part some fibroblast
- has part some collection of collagen fibrils