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What is the fibrous sac of connective tissue that encloses the heart called?
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The fibrous sac of tissue that encloses the heart is the pericardium. It provides protection for the heart.
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What type connective tissue is springlike and found in the middle walls of arteries?
Elastic Connective Tissue
What is the transparent tissue that covers the heart called?
The pericardium. It is composed of two layers: the fibrous pericardium (the outer layer that is made of tough connective tissue) and the serous pericardium (the inner layer in which serous fluid provides lubrication for the heart to beat with almost no friction).
Flaps of connective tissue called valves are located between the atria and the ventricles?
TRUE
What connective tissue occurs in some ligament attachments between vertebrae and larger artery walls?
Elastic Connective
What tissue makes up heart valves?
Heart valves are made up of Connective tissue
The fibrous connective tissue sheath which encloses a whole muscle is called the?
fascia
What bone regions are united by fibrous connective tissue?
There is no fibrous connective tissue in bone, but there is dense irregular tissue known as periosteum that covers bones (all except the articulating surfaces) and provides attachment sites for tendons and ligaments.
Define connective tissue?
connective tissue is a form of fibrous tissue
What is the connective tissue covering called that encloses the sarcolemma of an individual muscle fiber?
Endomysium
What is the outermost layer tough fibrous connective tissue called in the meninges of the brain?
Collagenous fibers are the tough fibers of connective tissue.
What is the fibrous tissue that covers muscles?
connective tissue
What is the fibrous connective tissue the holds bones in a joint together?
Ligaments are the fibrous connective tissue that holds bones in a joint together.
What kind of tissue makes up the epicardium. Why?
epicardium makes that connective tissue that is called fibrous and serous
On the basis of structural classification which joint is fibrous connective tissue?
Ligaments are the fibrous connective tissue that holds bones in a joint together.
What is the connective tissue covering of the kidney?
Each kidney is held in place by connective tissue, called renal fascia, and is surrounded by a thick layer of adipose tissue, called perirenal fat, which helps to protect it. A tough, fibrous, connective tissue renal capsule closely envelopes each kidney and provides support for the soft tissue that is inside.
What is the connective tissue that holds organs together?
The internal organs are held in place by the messentaries and the greater and lesser omentums.
The fibrous connective tissue joining the tooth to the tooth socket?
The fibrous connective tissue joining the tooth to the tooth socket is the periodontal ligament.
