Soft tissue connects and surrounds or supports internal organs and bones, and includes muscle, tendons, ligaments, fat, fibrous tissue, lymph and blood vessels, fasciae, and synovial membranes.[1][2] Soft tissue is tissue in the body that is not hardened by the processes of ossification or calcification such as bones and teeth.[1]
It is sometimes defined by what it is not – such as "nonepithelial, extraskeletal mesenchyme exclusive of the reticuloendothelial system and glia".[3]
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- ^ "Soft Tissue". NCI Dictionaries. at National Cancer Institute.
- ^ Skinner HB (2006). Current diagnosis & treatment in orthopedics. Stamford, Conn: Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill. p. 346. ISBN 0-07-143833-5.