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n. (context anatomy English) All the tissues of the body except the bones and organs.
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In anatomy, soft tissues are the tissues that connect, support, or surround other structures and organs of the body, not being hard tissue such as bone. Soft tissue includes tendons, ligaments, fascia, skin, fibrous tissues, fat, and synovial membranes (which are connective tissue), and muscles, nerves and blood vessels (which are not connective tissue).
It is sometimes defined by what it is not. Soft tissue has been defined as "nonepithelial, extraskeletal mesenchyme exclusive of the reticuloendothelial system and glia".
Usage examples of "soft tissue".
Because they were composed of comparatively soft tissue, a corpse's eyes usually bore evidence of physical degeneration before most other parts of the body.
My body was a warm twisting together of limp ropes inside the cage of the mob suit, a faintly quivering assemblage of soft tissue with no more will to animate its exoskeleton.
A rope lashed across the bridge of his nose made it difficult to breathe, and another binding the soft tissue of his throat made any but the slightest movements impossible.
One would not like to entrust the soft tissue of the brain to the immediate embrace of bone.
Nikko's kisheer moved across his face like a mask, its tendrils starting to fuse with his skin and the soft tissue of his mouth and nose.
The magpies ate all of what the detective calls the soft tissue evidence.
She ejected the round-point cartridges from her pistol and Speedloaders and replaced them with the new bullets -hollow points, which have more stopping power and cause much more damage to soft tissue when they hit a human being.
As he cleared the soft tissue with a curette, the spinal column gradually revealed itself, grayish white against the bright red of the surrounding flesh.
You don't go in there with a knife and start stripping soft tissue away from the bone, putting in clamps and plates and so forth.
The remains were complete save for the hyoid, a tiny U-shaped bone suspended in the soft tissue of the throat, and several of the smaller hand and foot bones.
Gwen unfolded the scoots, two small platforms of soft tissue-thin metal barely large enough to stand upon.