ELASTIC TISSUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elastic tissue mean? 

• ELASTIC TISSUE (noun)
  The noun ELASTIC TISSUE has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: ELASTIC TISSUE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELASTIC TISSUE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("elastic tissue" is a kind of...):

connective tissue (tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments)

Meronyms (substance of "elastic tissue"):

elastin (a fibrous scleroprotein found in elastic tissues such as the walls of arteries)

 Context examples 

Destruction of elastic tissue is present.

(Granulomatous Slack Skin Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

An immunohistochemical technique to detect elastin, a polymeric protein found in the connective tissue that imparts the property of elasticity to vertebrate elastic tissue.

(Elastin Staining Method, NCI Thesaurus)