General term for soft tissues. It includes the collagen connective tissue, neural tissue, smooth and skeletal muscle, and usually cartilage and sometimes bone.
Refers to connective tissue, blood, and lymphatics that originate from embryonic mesoderm.
pertaining to embryonic connective tissue.
Pertaining to the connective tissue that connects and supports the various structures in the body.
The meshwork of embryonic connective tissue in the mesoderm that gives rise to the connective tissue of the body, blood vessels, and lymph vessels.
of, resembling, or being mesenchyme (The part of the embryonic mesoderm, consisting of loosely packed, unspecialized cells set in a gelatinous ground substance, from which connective tissue, bone, cartilage, and the circulatory and lymphatic systems develop).
Refers to cells that develop into connective tissue, blood vessels, and lymphatic tissue.