connective tissue

Tissue with cells that deposit non-polarized extracellular matrix including connective tissue fibers and ground substance. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the connective tissue is

Tissue with cells that deposit non-polarized extracellular matrix including connective tissue fibers and ground substance. The atlas records it as a tissue at the tissue scale in the human body.

Where the connective tissue is

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What the connective tissue connects to

The atlas records 76 typed relationships for it, across 5 kinds of connection. part of ligament, mediastinum testis and mucosa, and 4 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the connective tissue. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as portion of connective tissue, textus connectivus and Bindegewebe. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002384, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

• Part of: ligament, mediastinum testis, mucosa, scalp, septum of scrotum and serous membrane, and 1 more.
• A kind of: tissue.
• subtype: abdominal fascia, anterior stroma of cornea, apex of arytenoid, base of arytenoid, bone tissue and bony part of pharyngotympanic tube, and 48 more.
• composed of: adventitia, capsule of lymph node, dermis, layer of synovial tissue, meninx and stroma, and 1 more.
• contains: interlobular duct, lamina propria of trachea, larynx submucosa, submucosa of bronchiole, submucosa of bronchus and submucosa of pharynx, and 1 more.

Questions

Where is the connective tissue?

This dataset records no region or system for it. No positional evidence of any kind. Drawn outside the body so it can still be found and counted, never inside it.

What does the connective tissue connect to?

Part of: ligament, mediastinum testis, mucosa, scalp, septum of scrotum and serous membrane, and 1 more.

Is the connective tissue the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.