connective tissue

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈnektɪv tɪ.ʃjuː/, [kʰəˈnektɪv tʰɪ.ʃjuːw]

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

connective tissue (countable and uncountable, plural connective tissues)

1. (anatomy) A type of tissue found in animals whose main function is binding other tissue systems (such as muscle to skin) or organs and consists of the following three elements: cells, fibers and a ground substance (or extracellular matrix).
2. (figuratively) A framework within something, with which the whole may be cohesively reconstructed or reflected.

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Coordinate terms

• epithelium
• nervous tissue
• muscle

Derived terms

• mixed connective tissue disease

Translations

type of tissue that binds other tissue systems

• Afrikaans: bindweefsel
• Arabic: نسيج ضام
• Armenian: շարակցական հյուսվածքի (šarakcʻakan hyusvackʻi)
• Basque: ehun konektibo
• Bulgarian: съединителна тъкан f (sǎedinitelna tǎkan)
• Catalan: teixit conjuntiu m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結締組織 / 结缔组织 (zh) (jiédì zǔzhī)

• Czech: pojivová tkáň f
• Danish: bindevæv (da) n
• Dutch: bindweefsel (nl) n
• Esperanto: konektiva histo
• Finnish: sidekudos
• French: tissu conjonctif (fr) m
• Galician: tecido conxuntivo (gl) m
• German: Bindegewebe (de) n
• Greek: συνδετικός ιστός m (syndetikós istós)
• Hebrew: רקמת חיבור (he) m
• Hungarian: kötőszövet (hu)
• Irish: fíochán tacaíochta m
• Italian: tessuto connettivo (it) m
• Japanese: 結合組織 (ketsugou soshiki)
• Korean: 결합 조직 (gyeolhap jojik)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: bestereşane f

• Latin: textus connectivus
• Lithuanian: jungiamasis audinys
• Low German: Binngeweev n
• Macedonian: сврзно ткиво m (svrzno tkivo)
• Norwegian: støttevev (no)
• Persian: بافت همبند
• Polish: tkanka łączna (pl) f
• Portuguese: tecido conjuntivo m
• Romanian: țesut conjunctiv (ro) n
• Russian: соедини́тельная ткань (ru) f (sojedinítelʹnaja tkanʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: везивно ткиво

  Latin: vezivno tkivo

• Spanish: tejido conjuntivo m
• Swedish: bindväv (sv)
• Telugu: సంయోజక కణజాలము (saṁyōjaka kaṇajālamu)
• Thai: เนื้อเยื่อเกี่ยวพัน (nʉ́ʉa-yʉ̂ʉa-gìao-pan)
• Turkish: bağ doku (tr)
• Ukrainian: сполучна тканина f (spolučna tkanyna)
• Vietnamese: mô liên kết (vi)
• Welsh: meinwe gyswllt f

See also

• sinew