connective tissue
a tissue, usually of mesoblastic origin, that connects, supports, or surrounds other tissues, organs, etc.
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We control the cultivation process, and we can design meat specifically for a market, adjusting the amount of collagen and connective tissues and fat, to tailor meat to specific requirements.
Raising the steaks: First 3-D-printed rib-eye is unveiled | Laura Reiley | February 9, 2021 | Washington PostDrew will help us to identify the global TechCrunch community and will serve as the connective tissue between Extra Crunch and TechCrunch, as well as our events, like Disrupt, where all of our content comes alive.
Welcome Tage Kene-Okafor, Mary Ann Azevedo, Sophie Burkholder and a guy named Drew | Matthew Panzarino | February 2, 2021 | TechCrunchOnly three of these events share obvious connective tissue, in that they mark the anxious hours and days ahead of and following the end of a besieged and unpredictable President’s tenure.
The Capitol Attack, Impeachment and GameStop Make it Clear: 2021 Is Shaping Up to Be the Year of the Moderator | Alex Fitzpatrick | January 29, 2021 | TimeWe want the platform to provide the connective tissues so that people can help each other navigate.
Combating record unemployment with the help of strangers | Katie McLean | October 20, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe meal also delivers an impressive 80 percent of daily vitamin C needs, which helps repair your connective tissues and ligaments, Carberry explains.
The liver cells fulfill about 3,000 biochemical functions but they are massively reduced by tough connective tissue.
Anas al-Liby’s Health Care During Terror Trial Could Gouge Taxpayers | Jamie Dettmer | October 22, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA nerve consists of a bundle of such tiny axons, bound together by connective tissue.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterSpecial nerve endings, called the tactile corpuscles, are found there, each inclosed in a sheath or capsule of connective tissue.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterThey are held together with a tough, stringy material called connective tissue.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3 | Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and SciencesThere is not the slightest difficulty in distinguishing the connective-tissue cells from the nerve-rudiment.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland BalfourThe dorsal extremities of the muscle-plates form the second source of these connective-tissue cells.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 | Francis Maitland Balfour
British Dictionary definitions for connective tissue
an animal tissue developed from the embryonic mesoderm that consists of collagen or elastic fibres, fibroblasts, fatty cells, etc, within a jelly-like matrix. It supports organs, fills the spaces between them, and forms tendons and ligaments
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Scientific definitions for connective tissue
[ kə-nĕk′tĭv ]
Tissue that connects, supports, binds, or encloses the structures of the body. Connective tissues are made up of cells embedded in an extracellular matrix and include bones, cartilage, mucous membranes, fat, and blood.
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Cultural definitions for connective tissue
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