fibrous tissue
81soft tissue sarcoma — a general term for a malignant tumor derived from extraskeletal connective tissue, including fibrous, fat, smooth muscle, nerve, vascular, histiocytic, and synovial tissue, with almost all lesions originating from primitive mesoderm. Tumors… …
82connective tissue — ► NOUN ▪ bodily tissue that connects, supports, binds, or separates other tissues or organs, typically consisting of relatively few cells embedded in fibrous material or fat …
83scar tissue — n. the dense, fibrous, contracted connective tissue of which a scar is composed …
84malignant fibrous cytoma — A soft tissue sarcoma that usually occurs in the limbs, most commonly the legs, and may also occur in the abdomen. Also called malignant fibrous histiocytoma …
85malignant fibrous histiocytoma — A soft tissue sarcoma that usually occurs in the limbs, most commonly the legs, and may also occur in the abdomen. Also called malignant fibrous cytoma …
86connective tissue cells — any of the cellular elements of the fibrous and nonfibrous components of the various forms of connective tissue …
87skeletal tissue — the bony, ligamentous, fibrous, and cartilaginous tissue forming the skeleton and its attachments …
88scar tissue — scar′ tis sue n. pat connective tissue that has contracted and become dense and fibrous, forming a scar • Etymology: 1870–75 …
89fibroblastic meningioma — fibrous meningioma a meningioma characterized by fibrous tissue with bundles of spindle cells; called also meningofibroblastoma …
90scar — Fibrous tissue replacing normal tissues destroyed by injury or disease. [G. eschara, scab] cigarette paper scars atrophic scars in the skin at sites of minor lacerations over the knees, shins, and elbows of persons with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.… …
