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Connective tissue

Tye most abundant tissue type in the body, onnective tissues typically have cells scattered relatively far apart within a large amount of non-living extracellular matrix (ECM).

There are five types of connective tissue:

  1. Blood tissue
  2. Cartilage tissue
  3. Bone tissue
  4. Areolar tissue