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elastic tissue

noun Anatomy.
  1. connective tissue consisting chiefly of yellow, elastic fibers and composing certain ligaments and the walls of the arteries.

Origin of elastic tissue

First recorded in 1860–65
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elastic tissue in Medicine

elastic tissue

n.
  1. Connective tissue in which elastic fibers predominate.
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