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fibrous connective tissue with the fibers arranged in a mesh or net

fibrous connective tissue with the fibers arranged in a mesh or net

Loose connective tissue containing many interspaces.

The type of connective t. consisting of wavy bundles of white fibrous tissue mingled with straight threads of elastic tissue, contained in a ground substance of much in which are imbedded also the connective-tissue cells; these are flattened lamellar cells, granule cells, Waldeyer's plasma cells, and wandering cells.

Cellular Tissue.

connective tissue made up largely of interlacing fibers.

connective tissue which occupies the interspaces of the body.

See under tissue.

That part of the connective t. of the body in which white and yellow connective t. fibers and bundles cross at alb angles and continually unite to form larger bundles or divide to form smaller ones, thus making a kind of network.

formerly called Cellular T. That which is found investing and forming the basis of all tissues.