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ligaments are tough elastic fibres which connect bone to bone.
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Tendons are composed of what tissue?
There are many types of connective tissues. They all have a matrix of extracellular material and they all have cells that excrete the matrix. Tendons and ligaments are dense connective tissues, loose connective tissue tends to be found around organs. Blood and bone are also considered connective tissues.
What are tendons and ligaments called?
Connective tissue
What connective tissue holds together movable joints?
ligaments and tendons
What is the hard connective tissue that provides a smooth surface in joints?
ligaments.
What is a ligament made up of?
Hi there, The elastic connective tissue is on most of your ligaments in your body. Hope this helped. Alex
Tendons are composed of what tissue?
There are many types of connective tissues. They all have a matrix of extracellular material and they all have cells that excrete the matrix. Tendons and ligaments are dense connective tissues, loose connective tissue tends to be found around organs. Blood and bone are also considered connective tissues.
What is a connectve tissue?
Connective tissue, as it names suggests, has a 'connective' function. It supports and binds tissues in the body. There are three types of connective tissue. 1. Loose - most common. Collagen, elastic, reticular fibres. 2. Dense (or fibrous) - tendons and ligaments 3. Specialised - e.g. adipose (fat) tissue is a type of specialised loose connective tissue.
What type of tissue are ligaments?
They are made of connective tissue.
Is ligaments the external connective tissue covering of a bone?
No. Ligaments are the connective tissues connecting bones.
Is a cartilage connective tissue?
no, but connective tissue surrounds the cartilage. a connective tissue is more like ligaments and tendons, but not cartilage.
What type of tissue binds and supports other tissues?
What tissue gives support to the body?
Forms the stretchy ligaments of the vertebral column?
elastic connective tissue
What are tendons and ligaments called?
Connective tissue
Tendons and ligaments are examples of?
Connective tissue.
What connective tissue holds together movable joints?
ligaments and tendons
Ligaments are what?
fibrous connective tissue that holds joints together
What connective tissue binds bones to bones?
ligaments
