elastic tissue
- noun
- /ɪˈlæstɪk ˈtɪʃu/
- Specialized
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tejido elástico
- The surgeon explained that elastic tissue plays a crucial role in connecting joints and supporting movement.
- collagen and elastic tissue
Examples
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Elastic tissue helps maintain the shape and elasticity of the elastic tissue.
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In the human body, elastic tissue provides flexibility to blood vessels.
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The stomach is made of highly elastic tissues.
Blog text (8) -
In terms of the congenital anemias, the proposed mechanism of elastic tissue injury involves oxidative damage.
Academic text (2007)
How Elastic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is a transparent adjective + noun combination: 'elastic' (springing back) modifies 'tissue' (a group of cells), so the meaning 'tissue that is elastic/contains elastic fibers' is directly inferable from the constituents. This is a descriptive, compositional medical term that follows regular English patterns (and has close equivalents in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Elastic tissue is named because it works like a rubber band in the body. Tiny elastic fibers in the tissue let skin and blood vessels 'stretch' and then 'spring back', so the term means body tissue that lets parts stretch and return to shape.