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Areolar connective tissue.

Ethmose of Piorry, &c., is the most common of all the organic tissues. It contains irregular areola; between the fibres, as well as serum, fat, and the adipous tissue. Of the fibres, some are of the yellow elastic kind; but the greater part are of the white fibrous tissue, and they frequently present the form of broad flat bands, in which no distinct fibrous arrangement is perceptible. See Fibrous. The cellular tissue or texture unites every part of the body, determines its shape, and by its elasticity and contractility, and by the fluid which it contains in its cells, facilitates the motion of parts on each other. Cellular tissue has been divided by anatomists into the external, general or common cellular tissue-textus cellula'ris interme'dius scu laxus, which does not penetrate the organs,-the cellular texture which forms the envelopes of organs- textus cellula'ris strictus, and that which penetrates into the organs, accompanying and enveloping all their parts, -the textus cellula'ris stipa'tus, constituting the basis of all the organs. It has likewise been termed Textus organ'icus seu parenchyma'lis.

Areolar t.