soft tissue

British  

noun

1. the soft parts of the human body as distinct from bone and cartilage

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Example Sentences

Yet while soft tissue usually rots away, the lack of oxygen caused by the manner of the shark's death and more mud landing on top preserved the fish.

From BBC

The Portugal international suffered a soft tissue injury in Sunday's 2-1 loss at Aston Villa, after which Amorim said he feared Fernandes would be out for "a while".

From Barron's

"It's a soft tissue, I think he's going to lose some games, I don't know for sure. He is a guy who is always fit so he might recover quite well."

From BBC

"This new fundamental understanding of how the signaling system works may help re-engineer that next generation of treatments," says first author Ryan Notti, an instructor in clinical investigation in Walz's lab and a special fellow in the Department of Medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where he treats patients with sarcomas, or cancers that arise in soft tissue or bone.

From Science Daily

How would a psychotherapist react to a patient who falls asleep to “they found a piece of a foot with soft tissue” in the fire pit?

From The Wall Street Journal