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Connective Tissues (Connective Tissue Proper (Dense (Dense Regular…

- - - - Description: Major cell type in fibroblast; few elastic fibers
        
        Function: Withstands great tensile stress when pulling force is applied in one direction
        
        Location: Tendons most ligament
    - - Description: Primarily irregularly arranged collagen fibers, major cell type is fibroblast
        
        Function: Able to withstand tension exerted in many directions. Provides structural strength
        
        Location: Found in the dermis of skin
    - - Description: Dense regular connective tissue containing high proportions of elastic fibers
        
        Function: Allows recoils of tissue following stretching
        
        Location: Walls of large arteries; within the walls of brachial tubes
  - - - Description: Closely packed adipocytes, or fat cells
        
        Function: Provides reserved fuel
        
        Location: Under the skin; around kidneys and eyeballs
    - - Description: Gel-like matrix with all three fiber types; cells: fibroblast, macrophages, mast cells and some white blood cells
        
        Function: Wraps and cushions organs; its macrophages phagocytize bacteria; plays important role in inflammation; holds and conveys tissue fluid
        
        Location: Widely distributed under epithelia of body; forms lamina propria of mucous membranes; packages organs surrounds capillaries
    - - Description: Network of reticular fibers in a typical loose ground substance
        
        Function: Fibers form a soft internal skeleton that supports other cells types
        
        Location: Found in lymphoid organs (bone marrow and spleen)
  - - - Function: gives rise to all other connective tissue types
        
        Location: Primarily in embryo
- - - - Function: Supports and reinforces; serves as resilient cushion; resists compressive stress
        
        Location: Forms costal cartilage of the ribs. Cartilages of the nose, trachea, and larynx. Covers and ends of long bones in joint cavities
  - - - Function: Tensile strength with ability to absorb compressive shock
        
        Location: Intervertebral discs; discs of knee joint
  - - - Function: Maintains the shape of the structure while allowing great flexibility
        
        Location: Supports the external ear
- - - - Location: Contained within blood vessels
- - - - Location: Bones