elastic tissue

1. 1.

   connective tissue consisting chiefly of elastic fibers found in the dermis of the skin and in the walls of veins and arteries and in some tendons and ligaments

   Broaderconnective tissue

Questions about elastic tissue

What does elastic tissue mean?

elastic tissue means "connective tissue consisting chiefly of elastic fibers found in the dermis of the skin and in the walls of veins and arteries and in some tendons and ligaments".

Is elastic tissue a common word?

elastic tissue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.