Regular Dense Connective Tissue

Preferred Label : Regular Dense Connective Tissue;

NCIt definition : Connective tissue mainly composed of parallel collagenous fibers leaving little room for embedded fibroblasts. This tissue has high tensile strength, but elasticity and flexibility are limited. Examples are tendons, ligaments and the fasciae and aponeuroses of muscles.;

Details

Origin ID

C33453;

UMLS CUI

C0225333;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Dense regular collagenous tissue [FMA entity]
- dense regular connective tissue [UBERON concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Tissue [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Dense regular collagenous tissue [FMA entity]
- Structure of dense fibrous connective tissue (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- dense fibrous connective tissue [SNOMED Notion]
- dense regular connective tissue [UBERON concept]

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