CONNECTIVE TISSUES

ti ues of body which support and hold to the other ti ucs, composed of a proportion of intercellular com with cellular elements. This intercellular material may consist main white fibres with a varying numof elastic fibres, or it may be cart i or bony. Where the white predominate, running closely to the ti ue is called fibrous ti ue; in positions where strength is reto resist strain, e.g., joint lig a When the fibres interlace, leaymore or le space between each the ti ue is known as areolar found, (e.g.,) just beneath the joining it to the deeper structures. may be fat deposited to a con extent in the cells of the ti ue, is somewhat dense, with the cells together, and it is then called ti ue; found beneath the skin, certain organs, etc. Where fibres which predominate are elastic (v.e.,) composed Of a substance which makes them springy or the ti ue is named elastic ti ue; (e.g.,) in the lig amentum nuchoe back of the neck. rare mineral occurring in tufts of needle-shaped crystals with other minerals, in Cornwall andS. Africa.