WordNet
n. tissue consisting of or containing fibers in both animals and plants
Usage examples of "fibrous tissue".
This receives its name because demyelination occurs in many patches, spread out over the body, the soft myelin being replaced by a scar of harder fibrous tissue.
Pearson indicated some streaks of white fibrous tissue in the heart, and the nurses craned over the gaping red body cavity to see more closely.
It looked like a single braided mass of fibrous tissue, red, black, pink, and yellow like some textbook illustration of a muscle.
If Lydgate had been aware of all the pride he excited in that delicate bosom, he might have been just as well pleased as any other man, even the most densely ignorant of humoral pathology or fibrous tissue: he held it one of the prettiest attitudes of the feminine mind to adore a man's pre-eminence without too precise a knowledge of what it consisted in.