The body's most varied tissue — yet every kind shares one recipe: cells scattered in a non-living matrix of fibers and ground substance. Change the matrix, and you get everything from fat to bone to blood.
Areolar (loose)
Connective tissuecells in a matrix
The family
📷 Reference image
A real labeled figure to compare with the interactive above.
Connective Tissue — OpenStax, CC BY 3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)
