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Are breasts muscles?
It contains some fat, but is mainly constructed of the mammary glands and connective tissue.
Which layer of the alimentary canal contains loose connective tissue glands and lymphatic vessels and nerves?
submucosa
Why are so many organs made of epithelial tissue and connective tissue?
they are found together because Epithelial tissue is avascular (it contains no blood vessels) and needs to get it's nutrients from the blood vessels in the connective tissue under it.
The tissue that forms endocrine and exocrine glands?
Of the four types of tissues- muscular, epithelial, nervous and connective- endocrine and exocrine glands are formed from epithelial tissue.
What is the fibrous tissue that covers muscles?
connective tissue
Does areolar connective tissue contain collagen fibers?
Yes, areolar tissue binds organs together. It also makes up the supporting structure of glands.
What tissue forms delicate thin layers between muscles?
Areolar tissue which is a loose connective tissue.
What type of body tissue includes the endocrine glands?
endocrine glands are epithelial cells embedded within connective tissue.
Which connective tissue is membranous and holds your skin to your muscles?
There is no connective tissue that holds muscles to the skin. That would be dysfunctional because you would have very limited motion. There is, however, connective tissue between the muscles and the skin, but they are loose and do not bind one to the other. The tissue between the skin and the muscles is called superficial fasia.
What is the function on the connective tissue in the mammary glands?
Support and moulding.
What connective tissues that connect the muscles?
Connective tissue is one which is rich in intercellular substance or interlacing processes with little tendency for the cells to come together in sheets or masses. Aponeuroses is the connective tissue that connect muscles to muscles .
What type of connective tissue prevents muscles from pulling away from the bones during contraction?
Dense connective tissue - it makes up the tendons.
