See Also: elastic tissue(medicine)
Verhoeff's elastic tissue stain(medicine)
hyaline degeneration of the elastic tissue of the arterial wall(medicine)
elastic(dictionary)
Elastic(medicine)
elastic fibres(medicine)
elastic cone(medicine)
Elastic Money(money)
elastic cartilage(medicine)
Elastic fiber(health)

physicism (iou) and elastic tissue (medicine)


physicism (iou)



physicism noun. M19.
[from PHYSICS + -ISM.]
The doctrine which refers all phenomena to physical or material forces; materialism.

elastic tissue (medicine)


elastic tissue


A form of connective tissue in which the elastic fibres predominate; it constitutes the ligamenta flava of the vertebrae and the ligamentum nuchae, especially of quadrupeds; it occurs also in the walls of the arteries and of the bronchial tree, and connects the cartilages of the larynx.

Synonym: elastica, tela elastica.