Soft tissue

Micrograph of a tendon. Hematoxylin and eosin stain.

Soft tissue connects and surrounds or supports internal organs and bones, and includes muscle, tendons, ligaments, fat, fibrous tissue, lymph and blood vessels, fasciae, and synovial membranes.[1][2] Soft tissue is tissue in the body that is not hardened by the processes of ossification or calcification such as bones and teeth.[1]

It is sometimes defined by what it is not – such as "nonepithelial, extraskeletal mesenchyme exclusive of the reticuloendothelial system and glia".[3]

  1. ^ a b "Soft tissue". Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Soft Tissue". NCI Dictionaries. at National Cancer Institute.
  3. ^ Skinner HB (2006). Current diagnosis & treatment in orthopedics. Stamford, Conn: Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill. p. 346. ISBN 0-07-143833-5.

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