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Definition of Elastic tissue
1. Noun. Connective tissue consisting chiefly of elastic fibers found in the dermis of the skin and in the walls of veins and arteries and in some tendons and ligaments.
Medical Definition of Elastic tissue
1. A form of connective tissue in which the elastic fibres predominate; it constitutes the ligamenta flava of the vertebrae and the ligamentum nuchae, especially of quadrupeds; it occurs also in the walls of the arteries and of the bronchial tree, and connects the cartilages of the larynx. Synonym: elastica, tela elastica. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elastic Tissue
Literary usage of Elastic tissue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Histology by Frederick Randolph Bailey (1906)
"elastic tissue. Elastic fibres occurring in fibrous connective tissue have been
described. ... Almost pure elastic tissue is found in the ligamentum ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1837)
"It was long esteemed remarkable that the elastic tissue should form an exception
to the general character of the lower, least important, and least organized ..."
3. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"It was found that elastic tissue exhibits a decided tendency to retain two, at
least, different mordanting substances, but formalin fixation is necessary to ..."
4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1883)
"Into all these parts, however, the elastic tissue enters in greater or less
proportion. The tendons and most of the ligaments are also formed almost ..."
5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1915)
"The elastic-tissue elements in the bleeding cases did not vary very much, ...
Pick (27) had shown that the elastic tissue was most abundant in the outer and ..."
6. Microscopical Researches Into the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of by Theodor Schwann (1847)
"elastic tissue. The distinction between elastic and fibrous tissue is exhibited
at a very early period. But my investigations into the history of the ..."
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