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A tumor springing from the neuroglia or connective tissue of the brain, spinal cord, or other portions of the nervous system.

tissue (Anat.), the primitive, embryonic, undifferentiated tissue, before conversion into connective, muscular, nervous, or other definite tissue.

Between fascicles or bundles; as, the interfascicular spaces of connective tissue.

corpuscle, as one of the white blood corpuscles, or those found in lymph, marrow of hone, connective tissue, etc.

A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.

ls in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together. Lymph corpuscles (Anat.), finely granular nucleated cells, identical with the colorless blood corpuscles, present in the lymph and chyle. -- Lymph duct (Anat.), a lymphati…

The part of the mesoblast which gives rise to the connective tissues and blood.

ter. It is found in all the secretions from mucous glands, and also between the fibers of connective tissue, as in tendons. See Illust. of Demilune.

anes of the mouth and anus, usually due to syphilis. -- Mucous tissue (Anat.), a form of connective tissue in an early stage of development, found in the umbilical cord and in the embryo, and also in certain tumors called myxomata.

the female, but disappear in the male. -- Müllerian fibers (Anat.), the sustentacular or connective-tissue fibers which form the framework of the retina.

The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord.

A negative connective or particle, introducing the second member or clause of a negative proposition, following neither, or not, in the first member or clause (as or in affirmative propositions follows either). Nor is also used sometimes in the first member for neither, and sometimes the neither is omitted and implied…

In present circumstances; things being as they are; -- hence, used as a connective particle, to introduce an inference or an explanation. How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor L'Estrange. Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is Shak. Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man,…

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests cartilage, except where covering articular surfaces.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a muscle, and sends partitions inwards between the bundles of muscular fibers.

The connective tissue sheath which surrounds a bundle of nerve fibers. See Epineurium, and Neurilemma.

The membrane of fibrous connective tissue which closely invests all bones except at the articular surfaces.

Inflammation of the connective tissue about the cæcum.

oring matter, as the pigmented epithelial cells of the choroid and iris, or the pigmented connective tissue cells in the skin of fishes, reptiles, etc.

especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.