Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun elastic_tissue

1 sense of elastic tissue

Sense 1
elastic tissue -- (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)
       => connective tissue -- (tissue of mesodermal origin consisting of e.g. collagen fibroblasts and fatty cells; supports organs and fills spaces between them and forms tendons and ligaments)