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Tissue that provides support and connects body parts?
The group of tissue with the two types, soft and hard tissue, is connective tissue. Loose connective tissue and fibrous connective tissue hold your body parts together.
What connective tissue has a jelly like matrix?
Blood is a connective tissue that has a liquid matrix.
What is the medical term meaning Malignant tumor of connective or supportive tissue?
Sarcoma (for examp. Langerhern Cell Sarcoma, Sarcoma of Ewing). addition! Reticulosarcoma (means sarcoma of the reticulocyte cells) A malignant tumor of connective tissue is called Sarcoma. There are three different subcategories: Hard Tissue Sarcomas (can occur in bone or cartilage), Soft Tissue Sarcomas (can occur in muscles, tendons, or lymphatic vessels) , and Liquid Tissue Sarcomas (can occur in blood and lymph)
Why must connective tissue not be too hard?
Connective tissue cannot be too hard because it needs to allow movement. If connective tissue was really hard, you would not be able to move your skin with such ease.
Name a connective tissue with a hard matrix?
bone (osseous) tissue
What type of connective tissue matrix hard?
Bone
What is a connective tissue with stony hard matrix?
Bone.
What connective tissue matrix hard provides levers for muscles to act on?
Osseous tissue
What is the hard connective tissue that provides a smooth surface in joints?
ligaments.
What is a hard protein material found in skin and connective tissue?
keratin
Describe where dense irregular connective tissue is found on the surface of a long bone?
in the cartilage of the long bone. cartilage is dense connective tissue and the cartilage of the long bone is articular hyaline cartilage, located on the outer surface of the articulating portion of the epiphysis.
What does pulled tendon mean?
A medical condition where a tendon has been injured, usually while playing sports due to overuse or exertion. A tendon is the hard connective tissue that joins muscle to bone.
